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France underestimates CAR challenge

Name: France underestimates CAR challenge
Uploaded: 2014-01-03T15:31:06.144Z
Duration: 2 min 52 s
Channel: Financial Times
Description: Hugh Carnegy on scale of unrest in Central African Republic

Intensifying fighting in the Central African Republic is posing a serious challenge to thousands of French troops in the lawless country. Hugh Carnegy, FT Paris bureau chief, says France underestimated the scale of the challenge.

January 3, 2014

Produced by Daniel Garrahan. Footage by Reuters.