French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and Europe's top aid official flew into the Central African Republic on Sunday to push for more global action to prevent the deeply troubled country from imploding.

"The situation in one word: desperate. What is unique is that the entire population is impacted by the conflict," said Europe's humanitarian aid commissioner Kristalina Georgieva.

Government forces in the Central African Republic clashed with a vigilante group which has been targeting Muslims, killing six of its members, the military said Saturday.

"Clashes broke out Friday between security forces sent from Bangui to Bomboro (south of the capital), and the 'anti-balaka' self-defense group," an army official said on condition of anonymity.

The U.N. Security Council called Thursday for a United Nations peacekeeping force in strife-torn Central African Republic, while France said it could reinforce its military presence there.

The 15-member council voted unanimously for a resolution urging U.N. leader Ban Ki-moon to prepare a report in 30 days on helping a small African force in the country, where rebels overthrew the president in March.

The death toll from clashes between ex-rebels of the Seleka coalition and local self-defense groups in the Central African Republic has climbed to nearly 50, a security official said Wednesday.

An earlier toll had put the number of those killed in Tuesday's violence in the country's northwest at at least 30, with dozens more injured.

At least 30 people died and dozens more were injured in clashes Tuesday between ex-rebels of the Seleka coalition and local self-defense groups in the Central Africa Republic, a security source said.

"Fierce fighting has claimed at least 30 lives ... but the clashes were still going on as of mid-morning," the source close to the military high command in Bangui told Agence France Presse.

The African Union on Friday urged the international community to do more in the poor and strife-torn Central African Republic, describing the situation there as "dire".

"CAR needs a lot of assistance, the humanitarian situation is dire, we need all to do more, whatever can be done to that end is welcome," El Ghassim Wane, the AU's Deputy Commissioner for Peace and Security, told Agence France Presse.

French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday he would lead a mini-summit with African leaders in Mali to discuss forming a new peacekeeping mission to boost security in the troubled Central African Republic.

The meeting on the sidelines of the inauguration of Malian President Ibrahmim Boubacar Keita in Bamako will bring together the heads of state of Gabon, Chad and Cameroon, the main contributors to an existing 1,100-strong regional peacekeeping force known as MICOPAX.

Central Africa Republic's new President Michel Djotodia said Friday he is dissolving the Seleka rebel group that overthrew the country's former leader and brought him to power.

From today, the Seleka rebel coalition "no longer exists," said Djotodia, who was sworn in as president in August after seizing power in the violence-wracked country.

Fighting this week between supporters of the Central African Republic's ex-president and the man who ousted him has killed almost 100 people, officials said Wednesday as an aid group warned of "atrocities" against civilians.

The two days of fighting erupted Sunday in the home region of former president Francois Bozize, who ruled the troubled nation for 10 years until the Seleka rebel coalition overthrew him on March 24 and installed its leader, Michel Djotodia, as president.

Central African troops battled fighters loyal to the ousted president Monday on the second day of clashes that have left killed at least 60 people, one of the deadliest outbreaks since a March coup.

The fighting erupted on Sunday near Bossangoa, some 250 kilometers (150 miles) north of the capital Bangui, in the home region of Francois Bozize, who ruled the troubled nation for 10 years until his overthrow six months ago.