UN Seeks More Peacekeeping Troops as Violence Surges
Category: Instability
Severity: 3 (Moderate)
Source: Drum Cussac
09/17/2017 (Central African Republic) - According to international media reports on Sunday, 17 September, the UN is seeking to bolster its peacekeeping forces in the country as officials say the security situation in the southeast is deteriorating. In a statement the UN's head of peacekeeping, Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, said that a security vacuum had been exacerbated by the withdrawal of United States special-forces troops earlier this year. Hundreds of people have been killed in recent months and more than half a million have left their homes as sectarian fighting between Muslim ex-Seleka rebels and Christian anti-Balaka fighters continues.
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