VOA Journalist Survives Mob Attack in CAR Capital

Journalists are among those getting caught up in the violence afflicting the Central African Republic. Idriss Fall, a correspondent for VOA's French-to-Africa Service, says an armed group attacked his vehicle Friday as he traveled through a mostly Christian neighborhood north of the capital, Bangui. "We were kind of surrounded by almost 200 people having machetes, guns, stones. I asked my driver not to stop and he told me, 'if you run away, they will attack us,'"...

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