Camille Lepage, a freelance photographer whose work was published in major French and American newspapers, died in a village near the town of Bouar.
"All means necessary will be used to shed light on to the circumstances of this murder and to find her killers," the statement said.
Lepage's body was found by French peacekeepers inside a vehicle that had been driven by Christian militia fighters, the statement said. In her last tweet about a week ago, Lepage said she was embedding with the fighters known as the anti-Balaka who were battling the remnants of a Muslim rebellion known as the Seleka.
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