New management,old divisions

摘要

After a year of violence that left more than 1,000 people dead in December alone, many in the Central African Republic will be glad to see the back of Michel Djotodia. The president's fate was sealed at a regional summit on January 10th in N'Djamena, capital of neighbouring Chad, where he was blasted by his fellow leaders for failing to stem the bloodshed. He resigned and agreed to go into exile. As the car's first Muslim president, he had led and then-in theory-dissolved Seleka, a mainly Muslim alliance of rebel factions that had ousted Francois Bozize, a Christian, last March. Since then, fighting has displaced a quarter of the country's 5m people. The mayhem has only worsened. In many areas, terror prevails.