EU announces strengthened aid to Centrafrica The European Union expressed its commitment to increase aid to the Central African Republic to prevent the country sinking into chaos and becoming a "new Somalia", more than three months after former rebel Seleka took power in Bangui. "The situation is deteriorating rapidly. We must act now," warned the European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, Kristalina Georgieva, in her visit to Bangui with the Deputy Secretary General of the UN, Valerie Amos on Thursday. Images and soundbites