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UN Condemns Attack on Staffers in Central African Republic

by Associated Press

   DAKAR --

   The United Nations refugee agency is condemning an attack on its
   staffers in Central African Republic.
   A spokesman in Geneva on Tuesday said armed men entered the agency's
   site in the northern town of Kaga Bandoro on Saturday and robbed six
   U.N. staffers.
   The U.N. says the staffers were threatened at gunpoint. It says
   staffers have been relocated temporarily to the local base of the U.N.
   peacekeeping mission and some will be moved to the capital, Bangui.
   More than half a million people are displaced in Central African
   Republic as deadly sectarian violence continues.
   The situation has worsened in recent months, with more than 300 people
   killed and 100,000 people displaced since mid-May after attacks in the
   impoverished country's southeast and center.