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Government security forces in a pickup truck drive past a demonstration by several hundred merchants calling for peace on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013, in downtown Bangui, Central African Republic, as negotiators prepare for talks with rebels from the north. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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Two children sitting on a church pew look back as a New Year's Day morning mass is conducted at the Notre Dame Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Bangui, Central African Republic, on Jan. 1, 2013. (Associated Press)

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In this frame grab taken from APTN footage from Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, President Francois Bozize addresses crowds, in Bangui, Central African Republic. (AP Photo/APTN)

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Troops from the Central African Republic stand guard at a building used for joint meetings between them and U.S. Army special forces, in Obo, Central African Republic, in April. Obo is one of four forward operating locations where U.S. special forces have paired up with local troops and Ugandan soldiers in the multinational effort to capture elusive warlord Joseph Kony (below). (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Troops from the Central African Republic stand guard April 29, 2012, at a building in Obo, Central African Republic, used for joint meetings between them and U.S. Army special forces, where U.S. special forces have paired up with local troops and Ugandan soldiers to seek out Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Ugandan soldiers hunting for fugitive warlord Joseph Kony deep in the Central African Republic jungle patrol the area on April 19, 2012. (Associated Press)

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U.S. Special Forces have paired with local troops and Ugandan soldiers in the Central African Republic to help find fugitive Joseph Kony, whose Lord's Resistance Army has been raping, pillaging and plundering villages across the region. (Associated Press)

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Troops from the Central African Republic stand guard April 29, 2012, at a building used for joint meetings between them and U.S. Army special forces in Obo, Central African Republic. Obo was the first place in the Central African Republic that Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) attacked in 2008 and today is one of four forward operating locations where U.S. special forces have paired up with local troops and Ugandan soldiers to seek out Kony. (Associated Press)

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A local operator reports security information into the Early Warning Radio Network, which supplies radios to remote jungle villages in Congo, Central African Republic and South Sudan so villagers can report attacks by the brutal Lord's Resistance Army. (Invisible Children via Associated Press)