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Central African republic on the brink of genocide

By PETER WANYONYI

AFRICA: The Central African Republic (Car) is a wretched place to be. Since independence from France in 1960, it has gone through five coups and survived a lavish self-coronation by the crazy Jean Bedel Bokassa, who virtually bankrupted the country in the process.

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