A picture taken on March 6, 2014 shows children of Christian families posing at a camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) outside the Bossangoa Catholic Church. Top UN officials said that a peacekeeping mission is essential to stabilise the Central African Republic — but there will be no “quick fix” and the cost will be significant. The nearly 12,000 peacekeepers that UN Security General Ban Ki-moon seeks would be operating in “a particularly challenging environment,” UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said at the Security Council. AFP PHOTO/ SIA KAMBOU (Photo credit should read SIA KAMBOU/AFP/Getty Images)











