Stability still elusive despite peaceful Central African election

By Joe Bavier BANGUI (Reuters) - As rival gunmen tightened their stranglehold on Central African Republic during three years of inter-religious bloodshed, women like Madeleine Nzanga became, and remain, lifelines for the nation's war-weary people. Each day she crosses the Ubangi River to Democratic Republic of Congo to bring back essentials -- even firewood and manioc, the local staple food -- that have grown scarce since militias seized the countryside. "During the shooting, everything has to c