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Children stand next to a plane in the camp for displaced persons at the Mpoko airport in Bangui, on January 21, 2014, a day after the election of Catherine Samba-Panza as the new President of the Central African Republic. The European Union agreed on January 20 to send hundreds of troops to the Central African Republic in a rare joint military mission aimed at ending months of sectarian violence. Saying Europe was “deeply concerned by the extreme insecurity and instability” in the impoverished nation, EU foreign ministers gave “political approval” to the rapid deployment of a force expected to number between 400 and 600. AFP PHOTO / ISSOUF SANOGOISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images

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