First Independent Mena Newspaper
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has offered his condolences to the Government of Morocco following the killing of two more Moroccan peacekeepers deployed in the Central African Republic’s south-eastern city of Bangassou. “This incident brings to nine the number of peacekeepers killed in service in Bangassou since the beginning of the year,” said a statement issued […]
Two other Moroccan peacekeepers operating under MINUSCA, the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) were killed on Tuesday and another was injured in an ambush by Anti-Balaka rebels in the second deadly attack, just two days after the death of a Moroccan soldier from the same contingent. “The MINUSCA regrets to announce […]
The international community condemned the attack against a peacekeeping convoy in the Central African Republic (CAR), in which a Moroccan peacekeeper was killed and three others were injured in a fire exchange on July 23. The attack took place when a convoy of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic […]
One Moroccan UN soldier was killed and three others were injured in an attack launched Sunday by Christian armed militia in the Central African Republic targeting UN peacekeepers who were protecting a convoy of water trucks. “The attack took place while the Moroccan peacekeepers were escorting water tankers to the river to help resupply the […]
Members of the Moroccan contingent taking part in the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic, MINUSCA, have thwarted a violent attack by the Christian militias, known as the Anti-Balaka rebels, on Muslim civilians in the area of Bangasso. In a joint press briefing with the spokesperson for the MINUSCA, a Moroccan MINUSCA official […]
The death Saturday of a second Moroccan peacekeeper operating under the umbrella of the UN mission in Central African Republic (MINUSCA) was strongly denounced by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. The attack in the city of Bangassou also claimed the lives of civilians. “The Secretary-General is outraged by the attacks perpetrated by suspected anti-Balaka […]
Another soldier of the Moroccan contingent of the United Nations peacekeeping force in the Central African Republic was fatally wounded during an exchange of fire this Saturday (May 13) with an armed group that attacked a Moroccan checkpoint in downtown Bangassou. An armed group opened fire on civilians overnight killing an undisclosed number and at […]
The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) has confirmed the death of the Moroccan peacekeeper previously reported as missing following an ambush by the Anti-Balaka rebels on May 8, 2017 in southeastern CAR. The MINUSCA retrieved the fallen soldier’s body and transferred it to the Royal Armed Forces stationed […]
The UN Security Council issued a statement strongly denouncing the attack perpetrated by a rebel group against a convoy of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) which resulted in four Cambodian peacekeepers killed, 10 wounded, including nine Moroccans and one Cambodian. One Moroccan peacekeeper is reported missing in […]
UN Secretary General vigorously condemned the attack on a convoy of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) known as The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA). Four UN peacekeepers have been missing, three Cambodians and one Moroccan, since the ambush by Christian rebel group, Anti-Balaka, […]