(MENAFN- Saudi Press Agency) Central African Republic began the process on Monday of choosing a new interim president who faces the enormous task of stemming anarchy and bloodshed as a top U.N. official urged the international community to keep the country from 'crossing the tipping-point into an all-out sectarian conflict,' AP reported.
The National Transitional Council began meeting to select the interim leader from a field of eight candidates, including the current mayor of the capital Bangui and two sons of former presidents. As the council prepared to make its choice, the United Nations held a special session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva focused on the embattled country. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called for 'swift and concrete action to defuse the spiraling inter-communal anger and resentment that is becoming dangerously entrenched.'
An African peacekeeping force has grown to 4,400 troops, with 3,200 of them remaining in the capital even as violence flares deep in the countryside. On Sunday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and its local partners reported burying 50 more bodies in the country's northwest over the weekend.
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