CAR: Displaced civilians live on wild foods

Fresh violence erupted on Monday (15 January 2007) in northwestern Central African Republic (CAR) where 50,000 civilians displaced by previous fighting are surviving on wild foods including roots, officials said. Government troops engaged rebel forces that attacked Paoua town, in Ouham-Penda Province, in the early hours of Monday morning, presidential spokesman, Cyriaque Gondu said in the capital Bangui.