Medical charity, Doctors Without Borders, treats up to 50 children a day in the town of Batangafo.
On Thursday, Amnesty International issued its own report detailing what it said was the systematic rape and murder of civilians in ethnic fighting.
The peacekeepers were ambushed by suspected anti-balaka fighters in the town of Banagassou, 700 kilometres east of the capital Bangui.
Fighting in the last two weeks has hit the towns of Bria, Bangassou and Alindao, all hundreds of kilometres east of the capital Bangui.
The clashes come amid a week of intense violence between mainly Muslim fighters from the former Seleka rebel coalition.
Monteiro told Reuters in an email that the operation had “engaged one helicopter,” but gave no further details.
Many of the refugees are from herding or farming communities and do not value education for their children.
Eight militia members were killed by security forces before the group fled, according to local media.
The country has been plagued since 2013 by inter-communal and inter-religious clashes.
Personal belongings & medicine were taken, and an MSF drivers, a CAR national, was killed.
Faustin-Archange Touadera has pledged to bring peace and development to the former French colony.
The majority of those allegations, 69 in all, involved personnel in 10 peacekeeping missions.
Families are forced to sell their possessions, pull their children out of school and even resort to begging.
Troops from France are among those who've been accused of sexual abuse in CAR.
France sent troops into the CAR for its military operation known after the coup in 2014.
20 candidates had urged authorities to stop the vote count because of some irregularities.
Two thirds of candidates want the vote count halted because of what they say are irregularities in the ballot.
The Election Authority said Faustin Archange Touadera, prime minister from 2008 to 2013, had 30,999 votes.
