Clashes between Uganda army, CAR gunmen kill at least 17

Ugandan troops in Central African Republic (CAR) have killed at least 15 fighters from the mainly Muslim Seleka force, a group that has carved out fiefdoms in the country since leaving power earlier this year, local sources said on Monday. Ugandan troops, backed by U.S. Special Forces, have been in CAR hunting down Ugandan Lords Resistance Army rebels, who have made the lawless nation one of their rear bases during a decade of preying on populations across the central African region. "The Ugandans fired on our men by mistake after confusing them with the LRA," Eric Massi, a senior Seleka official in Bangui, told Reuters. "We are trying to calm things down." Bienfait Walibanga, a priest in the Saint Joseph parish in Zako, in CAR's remote east close to the border with Democratic Republic of Congo, confirmed clashes between the two sides there and at the nearby village of Kono on Sunday and Monday. Read More http://ift.tt/TxJmrX