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U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon gives his speech during the annual Munich Security Conference February 1, 2014 Photo: Reuters.
UNITED NATIONS: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday he has asked France to consider sending more troops to the Central African Republic because the international response to the crisis "does not yet match the gravity of the situation."
Ban said violence between Christians and Muslims continued to worsen and he was gravely concerned that the violence in the landlocked former French colony could spiral into a genocide.
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