TOPSHOTS Refugees from Central Africa are distributed foods and clothes delivered by humanitarian associations in the Cameroonese Garoua Boula? border town, on April 25, 2014, for foods and clothes delivering by humanitarian associations. The French force, now 2,000 strong, was first deployed in December in a bid to stop the country's slide into chaos. Both ex-Seleka rebels and Christian vigilantes formed to counter them are accused of atrocities against civilians, including killings, rape, mutilation and looting, at a cost of untold thousands of lives, according to eyewitnesses and human rights monitors. About a quarter of the population of 4.6 million have fled their homes, many of them internally displaced while others have gone to neighbouring countries, particularly Cameroon. AFP PHOTO ALBERT MASIAS