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France is once again using a sudden outbreak of violence in an African state as a pretext to intervene there militarily. This time round, clashes between Christian gunmen and Muslim fighters in the Central African Republic are cited by Paris as the reason for military action in its former colony. But as the following report tries to find out, there could be more to the repeated French military deployments in Africa than just humanitarian grounds.