Bangui (Central African Republic) (AFP) - President Francois Hollande headed Tuesday to the Central African Republic on a mission to shore up the morale of a French intervention force after the death of two of the country's elite soldiers. The first losses of the French campaign to pacify its former colony underlined the risks involved in a complex mission to disarm rogue rebels who have plunged the impoverished country into chaos. Antoine Le Quinio, 22, and Nicolas Vokaer, 23, both members of the crack Eighth Parachute regiment based at Castres in southwestern France, died after a fierce firefight during a night patrol in the capital Bangui, where bloody sectarian clashes left hundreds dead last week. Hollande was due to stop in Bangui on Tuesday evening, on his way back from Nelson Mandela's memorial, and was expected to stress that the soldiers' deaths would have no impact on the tactics or the size of the 1,600-strong French force.