Face Of The Day

A man pours water on the head of a pregnant woman who nearly fainted during a food distribution of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) near a camp for internally displaced persons in Bangui on December 13, 2013. More than 600 people have been killed in the sectarian violence tearing though the Central African Republic in the past week, the UN said today. The resource-rich but poverty-stricken majority Christian country was plunged into chaos following a March coup by mainly Muslim Seleka rebels. A fresh wave of violence enveloped the country on December 5, prompting French troops to deploy in a bid to stop communal strife that had sparked global alarm and talk of a possible genocide. By Sia Kambou/AFP/Getty Images.