Paris will host on December 7 a mini-summit on the crisis in strife-torn Central African Republic, with leaders from neighboring African countries and U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon due to attend, the French presidency said Saturday.

The gathering of leaders, including CAR Prime Minister Nicolas Tiangaye, will take place after the U.N. Security Council votes on France's plan to deploy about 1,000 soldiers to take on an active fighting role alongside a flagging African-led "stabilization mission".

Britain said Saturday it would provide £10 million ($16.4 million, 1.2 million euro) in aid to the Central African Republic to help tackle the humanitarian crisis in the country.

The support package of emergency healthcare, clean water and logistical support is intended to boost the relief programs of international aid agencies operating in the strife-torn nation.

France said Friday it had replaced its ambassador in the Central African Republic, as it prepares to send more troops to help restore order in the strife-torn country.

"We have proposed the naming of a new ambassador to the Central African authorities," foreign ministry spokesman Romain Nadal told journalists.

France's defense minister said Tuesday that Paris would deploy about 1,000 soldiers to Central African Republic for six months to support an African peacekeeping force.

"France will support this African mission with about 1,000 soldiers," Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Europe 1 radio.

France is ready to send 800 extra troops to reinforce its presence in Central African Republic, the leader of the strife-torn nation said Monday after talks in Paris with France's foreign minister.

Nicolas Tiangaye told Agence France Presse that Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius "had spoken of sending 800 men" in addition to the 410 already in the country.

The U.N. Security Council expressed concern Monday that chaos in Central African Republic could disrupt the hunt for wanted war criminal Joseph Kony.

Kony's Lord Resistance Army (LRA) is reported to have moved into Central African Republic even as its president says the rebels want to surrender.

The foreign minister of the Central African Republic on Saturday rejected international warnings that his impoverished, strife-torn country could be headed for genocide.

World alarm has grown over the violence wracking the mineral-rich country since a March coup, with the United Nations, the United States and former colonial ruler France all recently cautioning the situation could degenerate into genocide.

President Michel Djotodia of the strife-torn Central African Republic on Friday announced that he will shortly renew a curfew on the capital Bangui because of a surge of armed crime.

"I am imminently going to issue a decree to restore the curfew from 10:00 pm until 6:00 am," Djotodia said at a meeting of civic leaders in the presidential palace, after a similar measure was lifted last month.

Up to 6,000 children have been enrolled by warring militias in the Central African Republic, a senior U.N. official said Friday, issuing a stark warning about the country's spiraling crisis.

"Roughly today, we're talking about 5,000-6,000 children, so the number has roughly doubled from our previous estimate," made in March, said Souleymane Diabate, UNICEF's country representative in the CAR.

The United States is calling for deeper international involvement to halt violence in Central African Republic, amid growing alarm that the impoverished nation is on the brink of a possible genocide.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday unveiled $40 million in new funding to help the country, with the bulk of the aid going to support the African Union-led peacekeeping mission known as MISCA.