Angry residents of Bangui shout at French soldiers who have brought a man whom they shot because they said he posed a threat, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014. The wounded man was evacuated by the troops and treated by Doctors Without Borders. Rebecca Blackwell/AP

A Christian resident of Bangui, Central African Republic, uses a machete to defend his neighborhorhood. Rebecca Blackwell/AP

French soldiers fire tear gas as they attempt to contain a demonstration calling for the departure of French forces. Rebecca Blackwell/AP

Nearly 100,000 IDP’s currently live in the refugee camp adjacent to the Bangui airport. Rebecca Blackwell/AP

Christians, blocked from advancing toward gathered Muslims by Burundian peacekeepers, use their machetes to hack up a table belonging to a Muslim vendor. Rebecca Blackwell/AP

Crispin Dalazou, 23, gets the stitches on a gunshot wound checked and rebandaged at a Doctors Without Borders clinic in the camp next to the airport. Rebecca Blackwell/AP

A boy wears a holiday mask as he and other children hang around a group of French soldiers on New Year’s Day. Rebecca Blackwell/AP

A man carries a table looted from an abandoned house past French soldiers securing a road. Rebecca Blackwell/AP

Children scramble for the last scoops of rice porridge distributed by a volunteer on behalf of the charity Caritas. Rebecca Blackwell/AP