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| CAR interim President Michel Djotodia resigns | CAR interim President Michel Djotodia resigns |
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| Central Africa Republic's interim President Michel Djotodia has resigned at a regional summit aimed at ending violence that has engulfed the country. | Central Africa Republic's interim President Michel Djotodia has resigned at a regional summit aimed at ending violence that has engulfed the country. |
| CAR's entire transitional assembly is attending the meeting in Chad organised by regional leaders. | CAR's entire transitional assembly is attending the meeting in Chad organised by regional leaders. |
| Mr Djotodia, CAR's first Muslim leader, had been resisting pressure to go. | Mr Djotodia, CAR's first Muslim leader, had been resisting pressure to go. |
| His seizure of power last year has led to 20% of the population fleeing their homes amid fighting between Christian and Muslim militias. | His seizure of power last year has led to 20% of the population fleeing their homes amid fighting between Christian and Muslim militias. |
| The UN has warned of an impending humanitarian disaster. | |
| Since December and the arrival of more regional peacekeepers and French troops, 1,000 people have died in sectarian clashes. | |
| Many villages are deserted and in the last month the number of those who have fled their homes has doubled - including almost half of those living in the capital city, Bangui. | |
| Mr Djotodia's resignation was made in a statement by the 10-nation Economic Community of Central African States (Eccas). | |
| His prime minister Nicolas Tiengaye, with whom he had a fractious relationship, has also resigned, the AFP news agency reports. | |
| Earlier Eccas Secretary-General Ahmat Allami said members of CAR's National Transitional Council (CNT) had been flown in at short notice to decide the leadership of their nation. | Earlier Eccas Secretary-General Ahmat Allami said members of CAR's National Transitional Council (CNT) had been flown in at short notice to decide the leadership of their nation. |
| The lawmakers met regional leaders while Mr Djotodia held separate talks with allies from his former Seleka rebel alliance, AFP reported. | |
| Under a deal brokered by regional powers last year, the CNT was charged with choosing a transitional leader to take CAR to elections due at the end of 2014. It formally elected Mr Djotodia to his position as interim president last April. | |
| Earlier on Friday, thousands of people in Bangui took to the streets demanding the resignation of Mr Djotodia, a former Soviet-trained civil servant. | |
| His Seleka rebel alliance seized power last March overthrowing in the then-President Francois Bozize, from CAR's majority Christian population. | |
| Although Mr Djotodia officially disbanded the Seleka rebels, he has proved unable to keep them in check. | |
| Their actions have prompted Christians to form vigilante groups, sparking a deadly cycle of revenge attacks. | |
| The African Union now has some 4,000 peacekeepers in the country and France has deployed 1,600 troops to try and restore peace. |