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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC officials struck a peace deal with 14 rebel groups at the weekend following talks in Sudan in a bid to end decades of instability and war.
The agreement was announced by Minsuca, the UN mission in CAR along with the African Union (AU) which sponsored the talks.
Details of the peace treaty have not been revealed with warnings that previous deals have collapsed.
However AU commissioner Smail Chergui said: “This is a great day for Central African Republic and all its people.
“We have finalised a peace agreement in Khartoum, enabling the people of Central African Republic to embark on a path of reconciliation, agreement and development.”
CAR won independence from France in 1960 and has been plagued by internal conflict and war.
In 2013 Islamist rebels from the Seleka group took control of the country in a coup starting a bloody war with the Christian anti-Balaka militia.
More than one million people are internally displaced with an estimated 570,000 having left the country to escape the violence which has left thousands dead.
