France said Tuesday it would send hundreds of extra troops to the strife-torn Central African Republic after the UN warned the country was descending into "complete chaos".

Calls were growing for an international reaction to the violence in CAR amid warnings that the mineral-rich but desperately poor nation was facing a "catastrophe of epic proportions."

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