<p class="title">Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a United Nations base in Central African Republic's capital late on Sunday, capping a day that saw at least one civilian killed and dozens of people injured, a UN spokesman said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The gunmen fired on a part of the base that houses Egyptian and Jordanian peacekeepers at 11 p.m. (2200 GMT) sparking a 30-minute gunfight in which no one was killed or injured, UN spokesman Vladimir Monteiro told Reuters.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We returned fire and sent reinforcements, and calm returned after half an hour," Monteiro said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It was not immediately clear who was responsible for Sunday night's attack.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Thousands have died in the country since Muslim Seleka rebels ousted President Francois Bozize in 2013, provoking a backlash from Christian "anti-balaka" militia. Violence spiked when former colonial power France ended its peacekeeping mission in 2016.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Since then, a United Nations Central African Republic mission known as MINUSCA has struggled to restore order to a country where government control barely extends beyond Bangui.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On Sunday, dozens of UN peacekeepers, civilians and militia fighters were injured as peacekeepers and domestic security forces moved in to dismantle militia bases in the Muslim PK5 neighbourhood of majority-Christian Bangui.</p>.<p class="bodytext">MINUSCA said PK5 residents had called on it to stamp out armed groups responsible for extortion and attacks on civilians.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It raided the bases of several PK5 groups, made arrests and seized weapons, ammunition and drugs, it said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The raids are not universally popular. On Monday, a few dozen people peacefully demonstrated outside the UN headquarters in Bangui calling for the U.N. to pull out of PK5, a Reuters witness said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">After Bozize was ousted in 2013 and anti-balaka groups carried out revenge killings, Muslim self-defence groups sprang up in PK5, claiming to protect the Muslim civilians concentrated there against ethnic violence. </p>
<p class="title">Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a United Nations base in Central African Republic's capital late on Sunday, capping a day that saw at least one civilian killed and dozens of people injured, a UN spokesman said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The gunmen fired on a part of the base that houses Egyptian and Jordanian peacekeepers at 11 p.m. (2200 GMT) sparking a 30-minute gunfight in which no one was killed or injured, UN spokesman Vladimir Monteiro told Reuters.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We returned fire and sent reinforcements, and calm returned after half an hour," Monteiro said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It was not immediately clear who was responsible for Sunday night's attack.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Thousands have died in the country since Muslim Seleka rebels ousted President Francois Bozize in 2013, provoking a backlash from Christian "anti-balaka" militia. Violence spiked when former colonial power France ended its peacekeeping mission in 2016.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Since then, a United Nations Central African Republic mission known as MINUSCA has struggled to restore order to a country where government control barely extends beyond Bangui.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On Sunday, dozens of UN peacekeepers, civilians and militia fighters were injured as peacekeepers and domestic security forces moved in to dismantle militia bases in the Muslim PK5 neighbourhood of majority-Christian Bangui.</p>.<p class="bodytext">MINUSCA said PK5 residents had called on it to stamp out armed groups responsible for extortion and attacks on civilians.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It raided the bases of several PK5 groups, made arrests and seized weapons, ammunition and drugs, it said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The raids are not universally popular. On Monday, a few dozen people peacefully demonstrated outside the UN headquarters in Bangui calling for the U.N. to pull out of PK5, a Reuters witness said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">After Bozize was ousted in 2013 and anti-balaka groups carried out revenge killings, Muslim self-defence groups sprang up in PK5, claiming to protect the Muslim civilians concentrated there against ethnic violence. </p>