Zentralafrikanische Republik

After nearly 100 women and girls in Central African Republic accused Burundian and Gabonese peacekeepers of rape, sexual abuse, and exploitation, the UN deployed investigators to the country in 2016. … Now, a 50-page internal UN report, marked “confidential draft” and obtained by The New Humanitarian from a former UN staffer concerned over the review’s findings, details blunders in the investigations and lays out how women and girls – as well as UN investigators – were let down in the process.

Central African Republic is considering hosting a Russian military base and would like Moscow to supply it with weapons RIA news agency cited the country’s president as saying.

Updating the Security Council on the situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) on Friday, the head of the UN Mission in the country, MINUSCA, called on the country’s friends and partners, including the Council, to “transform the dreams of peace, prosperity and development of millions of Central Africans into a lasting reality”.

[…] In this context, the International Peace Institute (IPI), the Stimson Center, and Security Council Report organized a workshop on September 10, 2019, to discuss MINUSCA’s mandate and political strategy. The discussion was intended to help the Security Council make informed decisions with respect to the strategic orientation, prioritization, and sequencing of the mission’s mandate ahead of its renewal in November 2019.

[…] Since 2016, some positive results have been achieved. … However, further violence has not been prevented, impunity remains widespread, and the expectations of Central Africans on justice have fallen. Nevertheless, the window of opportunity is not entirely closed. There are still important measures that can address past abuses within the peace and development framework of the 2030 Agenda and reduce the justice gap in CAR.

Renewed clashes between two armed groups in Birao raise doubts about sustainability of peace deal signed in February.

The UN Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to ease the arms embargo on the Central African Republic, where the government signed a peace deal with 14 armed groups. The French-drafted resolution said there is an “urgent need for the CAR authorities to train and equip their defense and security forces to be able to respond proportionately to threats to the security of all citizens.”

Cameroon is dispatching more than a thousand troops to help bring peace to its troubled neighbor, the Central African Republic. The troops are leaving as analysts say they are already stretched handling such internal crises as piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, the Boko Haram insurgency and the separatist crisis that has left at least 3,000 killed in three years.

More than six months after rebel groups in the Central African Republic signed a peace deal with the government, a trickle of refugees is returning back to the shattered country, but one in four Central Africans remain either internally displaced or living in neighbouring states.