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Central African Republic: a peacekeeper killed in a rebel attack

2021-01-16T13:19:43.645Z


Already on December 25, three Rwandan soldiers from Minusca were killed in a rebel attack in Dékoa, 250 km north of Bangui.


A Burundian peacekeeper was killed on Friday in the Central African Republic.

This is the 5th soldier of the UN mission (Minusca) killed since the start, a month ago, of a rebel offensive against the regime of President Faustin Archange Touadéra, announced the UN.

He perished in an ambush by "armed elements of the coalition groups" near Grimari, 300 km north-east of Bangui, during an "operation to secure" the surroundings of this city by Burundian peacekeepers and Bangladeshi, Minusca said in a statement.

Two Bangladeshi soldiers were lightly injured.

In a statement in New York, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres "strongly condemned the attacks perpetrated today by alleged elements of the Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC) targeting a convoy" of Helmets blue.

It "reiterates its deep concern at the continued destabilization efforts made by armed groups across the country" and "calls on all parties to immediately cease violence and resolve their differences by peaceful means", he said in his press release.

UN condemnation

In a separate statement, the UN Security Council “condemned in the strongest terms the attacks on Minusca”.

This condemnation is also expressed with regard to "all attacks, provocations and incitement to violence against Minusca by armed groups and other authors", specifies their declaration adopted unanimously by the 15 members of the Council.

On December 17, the six most powerful armed groups that had occupied two-thirds of the Central African Republic in civil war for eight years united, then announced on 19, eight days before the presidential and legislative elections, an offensive with the aim of prevent the re-election of President Touadéra.

They have so far come up against forces far superior in number and heavily equipped - in addition to the Central African army, the Minusca, deployed since 2014 and strong of nearly 12,000 soldiers and hundreds of Rwandan soldiers and Russian paramilitaries dispatched by their forces. country, at the start of the rebel offensive, to the rescue of the power of Mr. Touadéra.

Tensions feared before the validation or not of the elections

The latter was declared re-elected but at the end of a ballot for which less than one in two registered voters had the opportunity to be able to go to the polling stations due to insecurity throughout the country in outside of Bangui.

What the opposition invokes to demand the cancellation of the presidential election, in addition to "massive fraud", according to her.

The Constitutional Court must validate or reject the result of the election before January 19.

The rebels have been engaged in sporadic but sometimes violent attacks for nearly a month, usually far from the capital, but on Wednesday around 200 of them attempted two simultaneous incursions on the outskirts of Bangui.

These assaults were repulsed after intense fighting which left about 30 dead among the rebels, according to the government and UN sources, and a Rwandan peacekeeper was killed.

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Already on December 25, three Rwandan soldiers from Minusca were killed in a rebel attack in Dékoa, 250 km north of Bangui.

Source: leparis

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