The president of war-torn Central African Republic said on Thursday he no longer enjoys the power he seized in a bloody March coup as ruling the country has affected his sleep.

In a public meeting with representatives from political parties, Michel Djotodia complained that the assembled group could sleep easy while he lay awake worrying about national security, sometimes even forgetting about his wife lying next to him.

The Central African Republic's president said Thursday he was in contact with Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony, one of the world's most wanted war criminals, to negotiate his surrender.

"It's true, Joseph Kony wants to come out of the bush. We are negotiating with him," Michel Djotodia said during a meeting with political leaders in the capital Bangui.

France warned on Thursday that the Central African Republic was "on the verge of genocide," as the U.N. considers sending thousands of peacekeepers to the strife-torn country.

"It's total disorder," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told France 2 television, adding that the United Nations was considering authorizing African and French troops to intervene.

The president of Central African Republic has told the United Nations he has negotiated with Joseph Kony, even as an African force hunts the war crimes suspect, a U.N. envoy told Agence France Presse.

Abou Moussa, a U.N. special envoy, said in an interview that Kony may be sick and that Central African Republic president Michel Djotodia had told him this month he has sent food to Kony.

French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday called on the world to act over violence in the Central African Republic amid fears of a sectarian bloodbath in the deeply unstable country.

Hollande told government ministers the international community "cannot accept the abuses currently taking place, must take action and of course France will take its share of the responsibility for doing so," according to government spokeswoman Najat Vallaud-Belkacem.

U.N. leader Ban Ki-moon warned Monday that anarchy in Central African Republic risks spiraling further out of control and could need up to 9,000 peacekeepers.

Ban expressed alarm about increasing retaliatory attacks between Muslim and Christian groups in a report which calls on the U.N. Security Council to act urgently on the crisis.

Two civilians were killed in clashes in Central African Republic sparked by the gunning down of a magistrate and his assistant Sunday by former members of the Seleka rebel group, a police source said.

"Two people were killed and others suffered gunshot wounds on Sunday as residents protested the assassination of magistrate Modeste Martineau Bria and his aide-de-camp" in the capital Bangui, said the source, speaking on condition of anonymity.

American actress and celebrity campaigner Mia Farrow urged the international community on Thursday to take urgent action to stem violence in the Central African Republic.

"CAR is not a forgotten crisis. The population is simply completely abandoned," said Farrow, who is a goodwill ambassador for the UN children's agency UNICEF.

Members of Central African Republic ex-rebel group Seleka opened fire Wednesday on a crowd protesting the kidnapping of a soldier, killing at least one person and wounding several, police said.

The protest erupted after members of Seleka, which overthrew longtime President Francois Bozize in March, abducted a soldier in the Fatima neighborhood of Bangui, the country's capital, a police source said.

Twenty percent of the population in the restive Central African Republic -- 1.1 million people -- are under threat from hunger because of poor harvests and violence, the U.N.'s World Food Program warned Friday.

They "are unable to meet their daily food needs on a regular basis or require food assistance in order to get by," the agency said in a statement.