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Rwandan and Zambian peacekeepers from the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) have driven rebels out of a town- Ouanda- Djallé, lying more than 800km northeast of Bangui. In the process, two rebels were killed.
Rwandan and Zambian peacekeepers from the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) have driven rebels out of a town- Ouanda- Djallé, lying more than 800km northeast of Bangui. In the process, two rebels were killed.
But the rebel Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC) accused the UN force of “fighting alongside Wagner’s Russian mercenaries and militias allied to Central African forces. This, the rebels said, was in breach of neutrality to be maintained by the UN forces. The rebel attacks caused as many as 7,000 inhabitants fleeing into the surrounding forests,
MINUSCA launched a military operation on 26 June. A contingent of Rwandan and Zambian soldiers had arrived in the town and had tried in vain to negotiate with the CPC to withdraw its fighters, according to the UN peacekeeping force spokesperson.
The Central African Republic is the second least developed country in the world and has been at the scene of a civil war since 2013. At the end of 2020, the most powerful of the many armed groups that shared two-thirds of the territory at the time joined forces within the CPC and launched an offensive on Bangui to overthrow President Touadéra, who called on Moscow to rescue his impoverished army.
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Hundreds of Russian paramilitaries – mercenaries”-from the private security company Wagner, according to the UN – joined several hundred others already present since 2018. They drove the armed groups out of a large part of the territories they controlled. The UN regularly accuses the Russians, Central African soldiers, and rebels of committing crimes and abuses against civilians.
