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UN decides to keep peacekeepers in Central African Republic

───   12:27 Wed, 10 Feb 2016

UN decides to keep peacekeepers in Central African Republic | News Article

Bangui - The UN Security Council has decided to maintain its current deployment of UN peacekeeping personnel in the Central African Republic due to the current instability there which the UN perceives as a threat to international peace and security.


In its unanimously adopted resolution, on Tuesday, the 15-member Council decided that the UN Integrated Multidimensional Mission in the CAR, known by its French acronym, MINUSCA, will comprise up to 10,750 military personnel, among them 480 military observers and military staff officers, and 2,080 police personnel, among them 400 individual police officers.

It also decided to raise the number of corrections officers from 40 to 108.

The Council also asked the Secretary-General to keep the level of MINUSCA’s military and police personnel and corrections officers under continuous review.

The current mandate of the mission, which was established in 2014 to replace the UN Peace Building Office in CAR (BINUCA), is set to expire at the end of April.

More than three years of civil war and sectarian violence have displaced thousands of people in the CAR amid continuing clashes between the mainly Muslim Séléka rebel coalition and anti-Balaka militia, which are mostly Christian.

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