Central African Republic has been embroiled in fighting since September, with tit-for-tat militia attacks killing at least 90 in the capital.
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“MINUSCA was informed yesterday of allegations involving five women that had sexual relations with peacekeepers”.
Moreover, the council called on the auto authorities to swiftly investigate this attack and bring the perpetrators to justice.
One of the girls who spoke to the Thomson Reuters Foundation said she was 14 years old.
Another girl, aged 17, who is now seven months pregnant, said the peacekeeper used to come regularly.
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic is adding hundreds of troops and police before next month’s elections, but their arrival is expected to be too late for Pope Francis’ visit to the violent country.
The peacekeepers were hit with fresh accusations of sex abuses uncovered by a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation on Wednesday amid growing concern about a failure to combat sexual misconduct.
Onanga-Anyanga said “any single incident of abuse was utterly abhorrent” and expressed sadness that such reports continue to emerge despite MINUSCA’s transparency and zero tolerance policies and efforts to prevent such misconduct, the statement said.
United Nations spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, said on Tuesday that clashes took place between ex-Seleka rebels and the world body’s Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the country at a checkpoint manned by the mission in the town of Batangafo.
The Central African Republic descended into bloodshed after the 2013 coup against longtime leader Francois Bozize, with Christian anti-balaka militias battling Muslim Seleka rebels.
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In an attempt to restore peace and stability to the former French colony, in August 2014, a transitional government headed by Catherine Samba Panza was formed that included members from different political parties and ethnic groups.
