The Central African Republic parliament will elect a successor to former interim president Michel Djotodia within 10 days, dpa cited Radio France International as reporting Monday. The chairman of the National Transitional Council, Alexander Ferdinand Nguende, signed a decree late Sunday giving the country's 135 parliamentarians the power to elect a new interim president. Heads of central African states held a two-day summit in neighbouring Chad last week to debate the worsening sectarian conflict in CAR, in which thousands have been killed and 1 million people displaced.
