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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Morocco will build shelter for populations which have camped in capital Bangui as they ran way from violence, reports say. huffpostmaghreb.com relaying information from local media from the country announced that Morocco as a result of agreement with Central African Republic’(CAR) government will build a number of houses in capital Bangui to shelter waves of […]
Muslims in the Central African Republic (CAR) were facing “ethno-religious cleansing” as French troops struggle to contain the Christian ‘anti-balaka. militias, warned UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, in an interview with FRANCE 24 earlier this week. This warning comes after an alarming discovery by French troops on patrol in a rural region west […]
A resolution authorising European Union troops to use force in the Central African Republic (CAR), which has been torn apart by inter-religious violence over the past few months, was approved in a crucial UN Security Council earlier this week. This follows the EU’s own approval of a military operation, in which up to 600 soldiers […]
European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday (20 January) agreed to dispatch a battalion-sized force counting up to 1,000 soldiers to Central African Republic (CAR) to help to stabilize the war-torn African country. Being effectively the EU’s first major army operation in six years, the intervention by the 28-nation bloc comes after UN […]