Foreign troops ineffective in CAR: Analyst

Deployment of foreign troops in the Central African Republic (CAR) has failed to normalize the situation in the crisis-hit country, a political analyst tells Press TV.

“All of these foreign troops that are currently occupying the Central Africa Republic have done very little to…work towards some kind of political solution to the conflict in the country,” said, Abayomi Azikiwe, the Editor of Pan-African Newswire, in a Wednesday interview.

The analyst argued that the foreign troops have also failed to provide humanitarian assistance to the people and only employ the necessary peacekeeping operations that can normalize the situation inside the country.

“I don’t think the deployment of additional United Nations or other foreign troops to the country is going to be adequate to bring about some type of stability inside the country,” he added.

Deadly sectarian violence in the CAR began last December when Christian militias started a campaign of violence against the mostly Muslim Seleka fighters, who had ousted the Western-backed government in the country, and the general Muslim population across the nation.

The troubled country is currently in the midst of a massive humanitarian crisis.

The UN has described the displacement of the Muslims of the CAR as ethnic-religious cleansing.

French and African peacekeepers are on the ground in the country, but they have been unable to stop the violence and even in some occasions have been accused of killing Muslims.