By John Irish and Crispin Dembasse-Kette PARIS/BANGUI (Reuters) - A French journalist has been killed in Central African Republic, the office of President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday, the first death of a Western reporter in the country since France sent troops there in December. French soldiers found the body of freelance photojournalist Camille Lepage, 26, in a vehicle they had stopped that was being driven by \"anti-balaka\" militia fighters, Hollande's office said in a statement. Lepage, who had worked for a range of media including Reuters, Le Monde, New York Times and the BBC, said on social media on May 6 that she was travelling with anti-balaka fighters to Amada Gaza in the west of the country near the border with Cameroon - where her body was discovered. Father Jean Maruis Zoumaldé, director of Radio Siriri in Bouar, said: \"It was the anti-balaka that recovered her body.\" VAST French and African forces have failed to stop intercommunal violence in Central African Republic, which has seen little but political instability and conflict since independence from France in 1960.
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