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  • 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 on 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. (Associated Press)

    C. African Republic leader faces rebel threat

    After troops under Francois Bozize seized the capital of Central African Republic in 2003 amid volleys of machine-gun and mortar fire, he dissolved the constitution and parliament. Now a decade later it is Bozize who himself 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.


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