The Central African Republic’s Interim president has termed the wave of violence that has hit the country as an attempted coup.
The leader had to rush back into the country abruptly from New York where she was attending the 70th Annual United Nations General Assembly.
Speaking in Bangui, Sampa-Panza said that the situation was nothing short of an attempt to take power by force.
Bangui has been rocked by sectarian clashes which have so far killed 36 people and left more hundreds wounded even as another more than 30,000 flee their homes, away from the violence.
With a curfew in place, Bangui was deserted on Wednesday night and by morning, the barricades that had been set up on major roads had been removed.
Demonstrators manning the barricades had called for Samba-Panza’s resignation and the removal of the UN peacekeepers as well as those from France’s Sangari military, who were deployed to stabilize the country after the sectarian killings of 2013/14
