French ivolvement

Thanks to CNN, I found this article that explains the death of two French soldiers that died in Bangui, Central African Republic in attempts to establish peace between Muslim and Christian conflict via French military intervention. The French president Francois Hollande learned of the death of the two men and saw it as a depressing matter. "they lost their lives to save others". Hollande was planning to visit Bangui to pay respects to those that died in action, however his visit was delayed due to the death of icon Nelson Mandela; Hollande then payed his respects to Mandela. The two men that died were said to be paratroopers in the 1920's.
The United States and some European countries agreed to send some troops out labeled as "peacekeepers".  This could be a relation with Africa dating back to their involvement in the crusades. Since the French are there to simply keep the peace between conflicting people of Muslim and Christian backgrounds. This sort of fighting has been happening since Central African Republic established its independence and is the main reason why other countries like the US are sending "peacekeepers", so the fighting of religious conflict can be initially resolved.
I found this article unsettling if anything. It stood out to me because I never saw many articles about French military involvement. This is similar to the situation that is currently going on in the middle east, but clearly in an African country. I don't believe this matter can be resolved in a manner of conflict. And that is the reason why French forces are attempting to get high people of the Muslim and Christian religion in the country to come together and try to reach an agreement on keeping calm and peaceful as the article says. This has happened before in history, but in a different location; how well will this plan work out? Will it assure peace to not only the people of Central African Republic, but to the French and peacekeeping military? Only time will tell if the peace will be established. Hopefully this is won't turn into an article of more deaths coming from Central African Republic.