The majority of the country is Catholic and French speaking while there is an Arabic/French-speaking Islamic minority in the north, which also happens to be the location of most of the republic's diamonds.
|From an e-mail|
The Islamist foreigners believed the Central African Republic was rip for a limited jihad and began targeting Catholic cultural centers, churches, and businesses. Catholics in turn organized their own militias and began fighting the foreign Muslims in the west and the capital, Bangui.
The situation became worse in early December when Islamist forces attacked Christians in the capital. France and the African Union responded by organizing a fighting force to "restore order" in the republic and "disarm all sides." Since the Seleka do not use French-organizations to move diamonds it is likely the French and the African Union will take the side and put in place a pro-France power, whether they are clean or corrupt.
|Note how the French and African allies are not going to the Muslim north.|