U.S. embassy staff flees Central African Republic

March 28, 1997
Web posted at: 10:45 p.m. EST (0345 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States is suspending diplomatic operations in the Central African Republic, because of fighting between rebel forces and African peacekeepers.

State Department spokesman John Dinger said Friday that Ambassador Mosina Jordan and his six-person staff will move operations to Cameroon until the fighting in the Central African Republic capital of Bangui subsides. Dinger stressed that the U.S. embassy is not being closed; its operations are being "temporarily suspended."

U.S. interests in the Central African Republic will be represented by France, which maintains a presence in its former colony.

 

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