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<description><![CDATA[The embattled president of Central African Republic on Tuesday accused the rebels who have seized the northern half of the country of being backed by "foreign terrorists" and said he was heading to this week's peace talks to defend democracy.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Krista Larson]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Krista Larson]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/01/16285318-c-african-republic-leader-calls-rebels-terrorists</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/01/16285318-c-african-republic-leader-calls-rebels-terrorists</guid><category>republic</category><category>south-african</category><category>world-news</category><category>african</category><category>jacob-zuma</category><category>af</category><category>central-african-republic</category><category>francois-bozize</category><category>kpademona-marcel</category><category>jacob-zuma-sunday</category><pubDate>Tue, 1 Jan 2013 18:31:15 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=b19c2c93-32b6-4fbc-9872-c584a1a987a7.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="235" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=b19c2c93-32b6-4fbc-9872-c584a1a987a7.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="71" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Soldiers from the Republic of Congo, operating under a multinational central-african regional mandate, arrive by airplane to boost existing forces, at an airport in Bangui, Central African Republic Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. Rebels in the Central African Republic on Monday rejected appeals for them to halt their advances and to negotiate to form a coalition government. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e5f69363-4e4b-4ff3-8c3d-3a16e9c0f9c7.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="243" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e5f69363-4e4b-4ff3-8c3d-3a16e9c0f9c7.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="73" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Soldiers from the Republic of Congo, operating under a multinational central-african regional mandate, arrive by airplane to boost existing forces, at an airport in Bangui, Central African Republic Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. Rebels in the Central African Republic on Monday rejected appeals for them to halt their advances and to negotiate to form a coalition government. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1f38dd2e-ccce-4d68-ac8d-89436f13fbd3.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="248" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1f38dd2e-ccce-4d68-ac8d-89436f13fbd3.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="75" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A soldier from the Republic of Congo, operating under a multinational central-african regional mandate, stands to attention after arriving by airplane to boost existing forces, at an airport in Bangui, Central African Republic Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. Rebels in the Central African Republic on Monday rejected appeals for them to halt their advances and to negotiate to form a coalition government. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=61642d54-7b6d-402e-89fd-5efd15016f2a.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="250" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=61642d54-7b6d-402e-89fd-5efd15016f2a.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="75" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Soldiers from the Republic of Congo, operating under a multinational central-african regional mandate, drive away in a truck after arriving by airplane to boost existing forces, at an airport in Bangui, Central African Republic Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. Rebels in the Central African Republic on Monday rejected appeals for them to halt their advances and to negotiate to form a coalition government. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cef3b1ce-94dd-48dd-a162-618b01f39273.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="233" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cef3b1ce-94dd-48dd-a162-618b01f39273.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="70" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A New Year's Day morning mass is conducted at the Notre Dame Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Bangui, Central African Republic, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. President Francois Bozize's government is coming under growing threat as rebels vowing to overthrow him rejected appeals from the African Union to hold their advance and try to form a coalition government. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=245f1cca-3a9c-4cf4-b026-de5d909c5037.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="249" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=245f1cca-3a9c-4cf4-b026-de5d909c5037.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="75" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Churchgoers attend a New Year's Day morning mass at the Notre Dame Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Bangui, Central African Republic, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. President Francois Bozize's government is coming under growing threat as rebels vowing to overthrow him rejected appeals from the African Union to hold their advance and try to form a coalition government. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=847437a2-3a57-49f9-a995-809f69493561.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="266" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=847437a2-3a57-49f9-a995-809f69493561.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Two children sitting on a church pew look back as a New Year's Day morning mass is conducted at the Notre Dame Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Bangui, Central African Republic, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. President Francois Bozize's government is coming under growing threat as rebels vowing to overthrow him rejected appeals from the African Union to hold their advance and try to form a coalition government. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=89ebc27d-9156-4f6f-83d9-f5ecbdcf3ebb.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="259" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=89ebc27d-9156-4f6f-83d9-f5ecbdcf3ebb.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="78" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A churchgoer raises her hands as she sings in the New Year's Day morning mass at the Notre Dame Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Bangui, Central African Republic, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. President Francois Bozize's government is coming under growing threat as rebels vowing to overthrow him rejected appeals from the African Union to hold their advance and try to form a coalition government. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d922649c-b938-491f-b0cf-ae31d4d91c72.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="251" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d922649c-b938-491f-b0cf-ae31d4d91c72.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="76" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Soldiers from the Republic of Congo, operating under a multinational central-african regional mandate, stand in formation after arriving by airplane to boost existing forces, at an airport in Bangui, Central African Republic Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. Rebels in the Central African Republic on Monday rejected appeals for them to halt their advances and to negotiate to form a coalition government. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=16688f1f-5823-4a68-9e16-cb1fbbe2d6af.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="257" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=16688f1f-5823-4a68-9e16-cb1fbbe2d6af.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="77" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A churchgoer raises her hands as she prays for peace in the New Year's Day morning mass at the Notre Dame Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Bangui, Central African Republic, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. President Francois Bozize's government is coming under growing threat as rebels vowing to overthrow him rejected appeals from the African Union to hold their advance and try to form a coalition government. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a89a2222-4b0c-4eae-b00a-bce05ba98dc8.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="257" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a89a2222-4b0c-4eae-b00a-bce05ba98dc8.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="77" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A bushmeat seller, left, who declined to give her name, talks about how she and others in her neighborhood plan to remain there despite the increasingly fraught situation, as she sits by her wares at the market in the Bimbo neighborhood of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. President Francois Bozize's government is coming under growing threat as rebels vowing to overthrow him rejected appeals from the African Union to hold their advance and try to form a coalition government. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5ef465d8-c493-4f2e-8e27-20ff4bbc92c4.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5ef465d8-c493-4f2e-8e27-20ff4bbc92c4.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A Chadian soldier fighting in support of Central African Republic president Francois Bozize, sits on a truck in a convoy of other Chadian soldiers near Damara, about 70km (44 miles) north of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. After troops under Bozize seized the capital in 2003 amid volleys of machine-gun and mortar fire, he dissolved the constitution and parliament, and now a decade later it is Bozize himself who could be ousted from power with rebels having seized more than half the country and made their way to the doorstep of the capital in less than a month. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1d599a0c-d260-4e52-8a61-5e19884a2705.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="254" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1d599a0c-d260-4e52-8a61-5e19884a2705.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="76" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A soldier runs to jump on a moving truck carrying Chadian soldiers who are fighting to support Central African Republic president Francois Bozize, in Damara, about 70km (44 miles) north of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. After troops under Bozize seized the capital in 2003 amid volleys of machine-gun and mortar fire, he dissolved the constitution and parliament, and now a decade later it is Bozize himself who could be ousted from power with rebels having seized more than half the country and made their way to the doorstep of the capital in less than a month. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=598ddc60-4e49-4eac-8308-a6df895ee18e.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="251" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=598ddc60-4e49-4eac-8308-a6df895ee18e.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="76" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Narcisse Ngo, a banana cultivator, center, speaks about how he and others in his neighborhood plan to remain there despite the increasingly fraught situation, at the market in the Bimbo neighborhood of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. President Francois Bozize's government is coming under growing threat as rebels vowing to overthrow him rejected appeals from the African Union to hold their advance and try to form a coalition government. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=fc224c16-2ddf-4eae-a968-32c23f95ed95.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="264" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=fc224c16-2ddf-4eae-a968-32c23f95ed95.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A young boy eats some of the leaves that a market-seller, left, is chopping up for sale at the market in the Bimbo neighborhood of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. President Francois Bozize's government is coming under growing threat as rebels vowing to overthrow him rejected appeals from the African Union to hold their advance and try to form a coalition government. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=8ae7bfb8-2452-4f6d-a481-a1eb09fe5960.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="241" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=8ae7bfb8-2452-4f6d-a481-a1eb09fe5960.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="73" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Chadian soldiers who are fighting in support of Central African Republic President Francois Bozize, gesture as they ride in a truck loaded with weapons on the road leading to Damara, about 70km (44 miles) north of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013.  More than 30 truckloads of troops from Chad line the two-lane highway just outside of Damara, supporting government forces who want to block a new rebel coalition from reaching the capital, and Gen. Jean Felix Akaga, who heads a 10-nation regional force, says the town is a &quot;red line that the rebels cannot cross&quot; or his forces will attack. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a8edcf6f-00d5-4719-822c-2d84a7eb8890.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="253" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a8edcf6f-00d5-4719-822c-2d84a7eb8890.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="76" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Chadian soldiers who are fighting in support of Central African Republic president Francois Bozize, sit in a truck full of rocket-propelled grenades on the road leading to Damara, about 70km (44 miles) north of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. More than 30 truckloads of troops from Chad line the two-lane highway just outside of Damara, supporting government forces who want to block a new rebel coalition from reaching the capital, and Gen. Jean Felix Akaga, who heads a 10-nation regional force, says the town is a &quot;red line that the rebels cannot cross&quot; or his forces will attack. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2e18f609-709b-4ba1-a417-8b4faa0734ce.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="236" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2e18f609-709b-4ba1-a417-8b4faa0734ce.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="71" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A convoy of Chadian soldiers who are fighting in support of Central African Republic president Francois Bozize, moves along the road in Damara, about 70km (44 miles) north of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. More than 30 truckloads of troops from Chad line the two-lane highway just outside of Damara, supporting government forces who want to block a new rebel coalition from reaching the capital, and Gen. Jean Felix Akaga, who heads a 10-nation regional force, says the town is a &quot;red line that the rebels cannot cross&quot; or his forces will attack. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=bd7052fc-5ecf-475d-b40d-1484764f7e93.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="246" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=bd7052fc-5ecf-475d-b40d-1484764f7e93.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="74" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Chadian soldiers ride on a truck in a large convoy of other Chadian soldiers who are fighting in support of Central African Republic president Francois Bozize, near Damara, about 70km (44 miles) north of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. After troops under Bozize seized the capital in 2003 amid volleys of machine-gun and mortar fire, he dissolved the constitution and parliament, and now a decade later it is Bozize himself who could be ousted from power with rebels having seized more than half the country and made their way to the doorstep of the capital in less than a month. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5348f903-933a-4e93-bf80-18ce40896ca6.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="262" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5348f903-933a-4e93-bf80-18ce40896ca6.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Passengers ride on a car carrying sacks of food, bedding, and animals for bushmeat on the front, heading away from Damara, about 70km (44 miles) north of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. After troops under Bozize seized the capital in 2003 amid volleys of machine-gun and mortar fire, he dissolved the constitution and parliament, and now a decade later it is Bozize himself who could be ousted from power with rebels having seized more than half the country and made their way to the doorstep of the capital in less than a month. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=bec6c43f-6252-4d1c-a0e6-8d8c92cd9da4.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="262" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=bec6c43f-6252-4d1c-a0e6-8d8c92cd9da4.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A car heavily weighed down with food, passengers and belongings becomes grounded at the back while driving away from Damara where pro-government forces are digging in against the rebel advance, about 70km (44 miles) north of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. More than 30 truckloads of troops from Chad line the two-lane highway just outside of Damara, supporting government forces who want to block a new rebel coalition from reaching the capital, and Gen. Jean Felix Akaga, who heads a 10-nation regional force, says the town is a &quot;red line that the rebels cannot cross&quot; or his forces will attack. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e95380a1-02ce-46ec-9ac2-d04b42311423.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="258" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e95380a1-02ce-46ec-9ac2-d04b42311423.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="78" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A driver looks out from a convoy of Chadian soldiers who are fighting in support of Central African Republic president Francois Bozize, on the road leading to Damara, about 70km (44 miles) north of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. More than 30 truckloads of troops from Chad line the two-lane highway just outside of Damara, supporting government forces who want to block a new rebel coalition from reaching the capital, and Gen. Jean Felix Akaga, who heads a 10-nation regional force, says the town is a &quot;red line that the rebels cannot cross&quot; or his forces will attack. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6d8c0faa-1aab-4bba-87fa-c64972be7611.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="254" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6d8c0faa-1aab-4bba-87fa-c64972be7611.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="76" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A Chadian soldier wearing reflective sunglasses observes the convoy ahead of him, as Chadian soldiers who are fighting in support of Central African Republic president Francois Bozize, ride on the road leading to Damara, about 70km (44 miles) north of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. More than 30 truckloads of troops from Chad line the two-lane highway just outside of Damara, supporting government forces who want to block a new rebel coalition from reaching the capital, and Gen. Jean Felix Akaga, who heads a 10-nation regional force, says the town is a &quot;red line that the rebels cannot cross&quot; or his forces will attack. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6531ca9a-b021-41e1-9f6f-4cbb3c493215.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="257" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6531ca9a-b021-41e1-9f6f-4cbb3c493215.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="77" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Jean Felix Akaga, who heads a 10-nation regional force, inspects a contingent of forces from Gabon operating under the multinational central-African regional mandate, as they parade at their headquarters in the capital Bangui, Central African Republic, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. Akaga says the town of Damara, about 70km (44 miles) north of the capital, is a &quot;red line that the rebels cannot cross&quot; or his forces will attack. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=064ea998-88fa-4ee9-9086-fdb1a443cd0e.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="236" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=064ea998-88fa-4ee9-9086-fdb1a443cd0e.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="71" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Residents of a village look out as a convoy of trucks rides past carrying Chadian soldiers who are fighting in support of Central African Republic president Francois Bozize, on the road leading to Damara, about 70km (44 miles) north of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. More than 30 truckloads of troops from Chad line the two-lane highway just outside of Damara, supporting government forces who want to block a new rebel coalition from reaching the capital, and Gen. Jean Felix Akaga, who heads a 10-nation regional force, says the town is a &quot;red line that the rebels cannot cross&quot; or his forces will attack. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=86aac7dc-beff-4dc4-9c91-3952852537b5.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="212" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=86aac7dc-beff-4dc4-9c91-3952852537b5.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="64" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Chadian soldiers who are fighting in support of Central African Republic president Francois Bozize, ride on their trucks in a convoy on the road leading to Damara, about 70km (44 miles) north of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. More than 30 truckloads of troops from Chad line the two-lane highway just outside of Damara, supporting government forces who want to block a new rebel coalition from reaching the capital, and Gen. Jean Felix Akaga, who heads a 10-nation regional force, says the town is a &quot;red line that the rebels cannot cross&quot; or his forces will attack. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=8d5fed47-7f83-46f9-a265-c3a87cde50ac.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="222" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=8d5fed47-7f83-46f9-a265-c3a87cde50ac.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="67" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Chadian soldiers who are fighting in support of Central African Republic president Francois Bozize, ride on their trucks in a convoy on the road leading to Damara, about 70 kilometers (44 miles) north of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. More than 30 truckloads of troops from Chad line the two-lane highway just outside of Damara, supporting government forces who want to block a new rebel coalition from reaching the capital, and Gen. Jean Felix Akaga, who heads a 10-nation regional force, says the town is a &quot;red line that the rebels cannot cross&quot; or his forces will attack. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=58982bfe-ac92-4983-89d8-a2aeed508b62.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="254" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=58982bfe-ac92-4983-89d8-a2aeed508b62.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="76" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A Chadian soldier wearing reflective sunglasses observes the convoy ahead of him, as Chadian soldiers who are fighting in support of Central African Republic president Francois Bozize, ride on the road leading to Damara, about 70km (44 miles) north of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. More than 30 truckloads of troops from Chad line the two-lane highway just outside of Damara, supporting government forces who want to block a new rebel coalition from reaching the capital, and Gen. Jean Felix Akaga, who heads a 10-nation regional force, says the town is a &quot;red line that the rebels cannot cross&quot; or his forces will attack. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7605f8e4-b467-4161-86de-a8264c759b94.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="249" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7605f8e4-b467-4161-86de-a8264c759b94.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="75" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;The final contingent of reinforcements under current deployment plans, a group of around forty soldiers from Cameroon, load their equipment into trucks after arriving to bolster the multinational central-african regional force known as FOMAC which now numbers around a thousand troops, at the airport in Bangui, Central African Republic Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. Facing an insurgency by a new rebel coalition, Central African Republic President Bozize consolidated military power under his control Thursday after dismissing his own son as acting defense minister along with his army chief of staff. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=0a690e6d-bece-48bd-8176-ed2ada5f5dd1.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="362" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=0a690e6d-bece-48bd-8176-ed2ada5f5dd1.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="170" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A boy fisherman casts his line as he tries to catch fish to sell and make a living, though the catches are small and sparse, on the shores of the river Ubangi in Bangui, Central African Republic Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. President Francois Bozize consolidated military power under his control Thursday after dismissing his own son as acting defense minister along with his army chief of staff and while outside the capital government forces are at a tense standoff with rebels, in Bangui itself many residents continue to go about their daily business despite the tense political and military situation. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=bfb952b6-1d9c-4bc5-a20c-9416d9d1e189.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="245" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=bfb952b6-1d9c-4bc5-a20c-9416d9d1e189.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="74" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;The final contingent of reinforcements under current deployment plans, a group of around forty soldiers from Cameroon, departs by truck after arriving to bolster the multinational central-african regional force known as FOMAC which now numbers around a thousand troops, at the airport in Bangui, Central African Republic Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. Facing an insurgency by a new rebel coalition, Central African Republic President Bozize consolidated military power under his control Thursday after dismissing his own son as acting defense minister along with his army chief of staff. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f8bd9a84-f669-4d82-9a84-a0035283a80f.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="353" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f8bd9a84-f669-4d82-9a84-a0035283a80f.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="174" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A boy fisherman shows the results of his small catch, on the shores of the river Ubangi in Bangui, Central African Republic Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. President Francois Bozize consolidated military power under his control Thursday after dismissing his own son as acting defense minister along with his army chief of staff and while outside the capital government forces are at a tense standoff with rebels, in Bangui itself many residents continue to go about their daily business despite the tense political and military situation. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=161e7862-737f-492e-91b7-2d5404253aae.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="253" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=161e7862-737f-492e-91b7-2d5404253aae.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="76" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A soldier jumps onto his truck as it departs, after the final contingent of reinforcements under current deployment plans, a group of around forty soldiers from Cameroon, arrived to bolster the multinational central-african regional force known as FOMAC which now numbers around a thousand troops, at the airport in Bangui, Central African Republic Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. Facing an insurgency by a new rebel coalition, Central African Republic President Bozize consolidated military power under his control Thursday after dismissing his own son as acting defense minister along with his army chief of staff. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=45b6fa17-9842-4fb2-8ae7-ab215df3042e.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="259" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=45b6fa17-9842-4fb2-8ae7-ab215df3042e.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="78" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;The final contingent of reinforcements under current deployment plans, a group of around forty soldiers from Cameroon, load munitions into trucks after arriving to bolster the multinational central-african regional force known as FOMAC which now numbers around a thousand troops, at the airport in Bangui, Central African Republic Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. Facing an insurgency by a new rebel coalition, Central African Republic President Bozize consolidated military power under his control Thursday after dismissing his own son as acting defense minister along with his army chief of staff. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=49c3b74b-b0d2-4ecf-8748-5c075a607719.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="257" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=49c3b74b-b0d2-4ecf-8748-5c075a607719.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="77" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A boy fisherman heads a football as others pull in nets to try to make a living selling fish, though the catches are small and sparse, on the shores of the river Ubangi in Bangui, Central African Republic Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. President Francois Bozize consolidated military power under his control Thursday after dismissing his own son as acting defense minister along with his army chief of staff and while outside the capital government forces are at a tense standoff with rebels, in Bangui itself many residents continue to go about their daily business despite the tense political and military situation. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=69b99f3b-c6b0-4c23-8c69-32ab42a69847.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="220" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=69b99f3b-c6b0-4c23-8c69-32ab42a69847.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="66" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A fisherman pilots a pirogue as he tries to make a living selling fish, though the catches are small and sparse, on the shores of the river Ubangi in Bangui, Central African Republic Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. President Francois Bozize consolidated military power under his control Thursday after dismissing his own son as acting defense minister along with his army chief of staff and while outside the capital government forces are at a tense standoff with rebels, in Bangui itself many residents continue to go about their daily business despite the tense political and military situation. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a91ca47d-a271-4668-a4c9-41d26d007e50.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="257" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a91ca47d-a271-4668-a4c9-41d26d007e50.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="77" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;The final contingent of reinforcements under current deployment plans, a group of around forty soldiers from Cameroon, arrive to bolster the multinational central-african regional force known as FOMAC which now numbers around a thousand troops, at the airport in Bangui, Central African Republic Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. Facing an insurgency by a new rebel coalition, Central African Republic President Bozize consolidated military power under his control Thursday after dismissing his own son as acting defense minister along with his army chief of staff. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=71238bef-9873-4319-b874-ee10c536b1a6.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="250" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=71238bef-9873-4319-b874-ee10c536b1a6.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="75" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A boy fisherman pulls in nets with others to try to make a living selling fish, though the catches are small and sparse, on the shores of the river Ubangi in Bangui, Central African Republic Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. President Francois Bozize consolidated military power under his control Thursday after dismissing his own son as acting defense minister along with his army chief of staff and while outside the capital government forces are at a tense standoff with rebels, in Bangui itself many residents continue to go about their daily business despite the tense political and military situation. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e0165ec7-39d5-4a64-99eb-c733728eb5b8.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="268" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e0165ec7-39d5-4a64-99eb-c733728eb5b8.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Victor Keita, who said he was born in 1928, stands outside one of the many empty houses of his neighbors who have fled, in the town of Damara where pro-government forces are digging in against the rebel advance, about 70km (44 miles) north of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. After troops under Bozize seized the capital in 2003 amid volleys of machine-gun and mortar fire, he dissolved the constitution and parliament, and now a decade later it is Bozize himself who could be ousted from power with rebels having seized more than half the country and made their way to the doorstep of the capital in less than a month. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=48dfaa44-d4e1-42cc-a266-8c1e9771c41a.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="258" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=48dfaa44-d4e1-42cc-a266-8c1e9771c41a.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="78" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Several hundred protesting merchants, one holding a placard using the french acronym of the country's name, hold a demonstration calling for peace as negotiators prepare for talks with rebels from the north, in downtown Bangui, Central African Republic Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013. The U.N. Security Council urged rebels in the Central African Republic on Friday to halt their military offensive, withdraw from cities they have seized, and take part in negotiations to find a political solution to the impoverished country's longstanding problems. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=b3df8beb-43f1-4f29-a302-dfce98dadde0.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="253" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=b3df8beb-43f1-4f29-a302-dfce98dadde0.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="76" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Government security forces in a pickup truck drive past a demonstration held by several hundred merchants calling for peace as negotiators prepare for talks with rebels from the north, in downtown Bangui, Central African Republic Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013. The U.N. Security Council urged rebels in the Central African Republic on Friday to halt their military offensive, withdraw from cities they have seized, and take part in negotiations to find a political solution to the impoverished country's longstanding problems. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=939072ba-b39a-4cbf-9965-bf5d0e41aa74.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="245" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=939072ba-b39a-4cbf-9965-bf5d0e41aa74.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="74" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A young street vendor selling bananas walks over to take a look at a demonstration held by several hundred merchants calling for peace as negotiators prepare for talks with rebels from the north, in downtown Bangui, Central African Republic, Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013. The U.N. Security Council urged rebels in the Central African Republic on Friday to halt their military offensive, withdraw from cities they have seized, and take part in negotiations to find a political solution to the impoverished country's longstanding problems. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5360180d-ded3-4661-a2ad-5af2369c6c17.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="240" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5360180d-ded3-4661-a2ad-5af2369c6c17.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="72" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Government security forces in a pickup truck drive past a demonstration held by several hundred merchants calling for peace as negotiators prepare for talks with rebels from the north, in downtown Bangui, Central African Republic Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013. The U.N. Security Council urged rebels in the Central African Republic on Friday to halt their military offensive, withdraw from cities they have seized, and take part in negotiations to find a political solution to the impoverished country's longstanding problems. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=31ac61ad-5fc2-4551-97fc-03e23ca34141.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="259" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=31ac61ad-5fc2-4551-97fc-03e23ca34141.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="78" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Several hundred protesting merchants, one holding a placard using the french acronym of the country's name, hold a demonstration calling for peace as negotiators prepare for talks with rebels from the north, in downtown Bangui, Central African Republic Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013. The U.N. Security Council urged rebels in the Central African Republic on Friday to halt their military offensive, withdraw from cities they have seized, and take part in negotiations to find a political solution to the impoverished country's longstanding problems. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a5708d97-6d6c-4e86-9276-342c834e655a.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="247" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a5708d97-6d6c-4e86-9276-342c834e655a.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="75" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;The thurifer swings the thurible of incense as he leads the procession out of the Notre Dame Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception at the end of the morning mass in Bangui, Central African Republic Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. Rebels in Central African Republic seized control of another town on Saturday, just days before they are to begin negotiations with the government, casting doubt on the possible success of the talks. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ac82de58-4938-4e75-ada8-37d648327593.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="252" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ac82de58-4938-4e75-ada8-37d648327593.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="76" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A young boy prays during morning mass at the Notre Dame Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Bangui, Central African Republic Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. Rebels in Central African Republic seized control of another town on Saturday, just days before they are to begin negotiations with the government, casting doubt on the possible success of the talks. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5f28b9d6-76d1-4d3a-8a56-202364dc09e4.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="255" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5f28b9d6-76d1-4d3a-8a56-202364dc09e4.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="77" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A young street vendor selling eggs walks past a demonstration held by several hundred merchants calling for peace as negotiators prepare for talks with rebels from the north, in downtown Bangui, Central African Republic Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013. The U.N. Security Council urged rebels in the Central African Republic on Friday to halt their military offensive, withdraw from cities they have seized, and take part in negotiations to find a political solution to the impoverished country's longstanding problems. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d2014bfe-b07e-47c2-9a32-bb4cd1c56317.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="243" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d2014bfe-b07e-47c2-9a32-bb4cd1c56317.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="73" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A few hundred men from the group &quot;Jeunes Patriotes&quot;, or Young Patriots, cheer as a speaker instructs them to increase their vigilance in their neighborhoods, at the football stadium in the capital Bangui, Central African Republic Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. The Young Patriots are ardent supporters of President Francois Bozize and have been organizing unofficial post-curfew roadblocks and searching passing vehicles following calls by the president for citizens to remain vigilant, in an attempt to prevent what they claim is a threat of infiltration by rebels, but which some people say is an opportunity for them to shake down other citizens for money. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d18acb02-2c8a-4fbb-a113-f69591efa40a.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d18acb02-2c8a-4fbb-a113-f69591efa40a.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Head of the Central African Republic's government delegation to the peace talks, Jean Willybiro Sako, speaks to the media at the airport in Bangui, Central African Republic Monday, Jan. 7, 2013. Delegations representing Central African Republic's government and the rebels who now control much of the country's north were to head Monday to hold peace talks in Libreville, Gabon, though already there are concerns about what will happen if those negotiations fail. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=61aa2ce5-7f0d-4a93-88f9-c4b3fbd39808.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="262" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=61aa2ce5-7f0d-4a93-88f9-c4b3fbd39808.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Political opposition leader Martin Ziguele, foreground left, and head of the political opposition's delegation to the peace talks Nicolas Tiangaye, foreground right, arrive at the airport in Bangui, Central African Republic Monday, Jan. 7, 2013. Delegations representing Central African Republic's government and the rebels who now control much of the country's north were to head Monday to hold peace talks in Libreville, Gabon, though already there are concerns about what will happen if those negotiations fail. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=24723d78-d458-40c1-bb2e-117ff084f9a8.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="262" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=24723d78-d458-40c1-bb2e-117ff084f9a8.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A member of the political opposition delegation wears a badge from a French anti-torture group reading &quot;Neither torture nor the death penalty&quot; alongside a pin of the country's flag, as he arrives at the airport in Bangui, Central African Republic Monday, Jan. 7, 2013. Delegations representing Central African Republic's government and the rebels who now control much of the country's north were to head Monday to hold peace talks in Libreville, Gabon, though already there are concerns about what will happen if those negotiations fail. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a07102e8-15b9-4494-9246-96b481d0556d.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="264" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a07102e8-15b9-4494-9246-96b481d0556d.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Head of the Central African Republic's government delegation to the peace talks, Jean Willybiro Sako, speaks to the media at the airport in Bangui, Central African Republic Monday, Jan. 7, 2013. Delegations representing Central African Republic's government and the rebels who now control much of the country's north were to head Monday to hold peace talks in Libreville, Gabon, though already there are concerns about what will happen if those negotiations fail. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ee4ea064-1c72-43e6-9b69-bc5afa41e74a.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ee4ea064-1c72-43e6-9b69-bc5afa41e74a.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;The spokesman for the Central African Republic rebels Eric Massi addresses reporters during an interview with the Associated Press in Paris, Monday Jan. 7, 2013. Eric Massi told The Associated Press that the rebels have several thousand armed fighters and the power to overrun the heavily fortified town of Damara. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=690698b6-0a49-4629-9df8-b584cedd51a7.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="311" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=690698b6-0a49-4629-9df8-b584cedd51a7.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="198" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;The spokesman for the Central African Republic rebels Eric Massi addresses reporters during an interview with the Associated Press in Paris, Monday Jan. 7, 2013. Eric Massi told The Associated Press that the rebels have several thousand armed fighters and the power to overrun the heavily fortified town of Damara. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cbefc30b-9c8b-4a5e-a52f-9bf7d6abbdcb.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="272" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cbefc30b-9c8b-4a5e-a52f-9bf7d6abbdcb.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="82" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;President of the Central African Republic Francois Bozize speaks to the media at the presidential palace in Bangui, Central African Republic Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013. The embattled president of Central African Republic says he is prepared to listen to the country's rebels in negotiations if they have something positive to say, telling journalists Tuesday that &quot;if the terrorists come to talk terrorism, the whole world will know it.&quot; (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1ea85b04-33e3-4cb3-ad67-94250039f3ed.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="263" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1ea85b04-33e3-4cb3-ad67-94250039f3ed.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;President of the Central African Republic Francois Bozize speaks to the media at the presidential palace in Bangui, Central African Republic Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013. The embattled president of Central African Republic says he is prepared to listen to the country's rebels in negotiations if they have something positive to say, telling journalists Tuesday that &quot;if the terrorists come to talk terrorism, the whole world will know it.&quot; (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=b436c64d-f0c8-4d63-905e-4fc4133d1ebb.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="270" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=b436c64d-f0c8-4d63-905e-4fc4133d1ebb.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;President of the Central African Republic Francois Bozize speaks to the media at the presidential palace in Bangui, Central African Republic Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=bf4478e5-ab22-46ba-8c70-667d78e574e1.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="272" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=bf4478e5-ab22-46ba-8c70-667d78e574e1.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="82" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;President of the Central African Republic Francois Bozize speaks to the media at the presidential palace in Bangui, Central African Republic Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=40292a1c-f201-4ad3-9d6c-8a35255070da.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="255" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=40292a1c-f201-4ad3-9d6c-8a35255070da.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="77" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;President of the Central African Republic Francois Bozize speaks to the media, in front of a map of the country with the colors of its flag, at the presidential palace in Bangui, Central African Republic Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>