UN deploys peacekeepers in Central Africa

The international organization considered the attack a deliberate attempt to destabilize the presidential and legislative elections that are supposed to take place on December 27th.

The spokesman for the United Nations Mission in Central Africa (MINUSCA), Vladimir Monteiro, said that the mission deployed forces in Bosembitelli and Bosembele, two towns in the Umbella-Mboko region targeted by attacks by armed groups, demand and rehabilitation, the National Movement for Central Africa and the anti-balaka movement.

These three major groups, which controlled two-thirds of the Central African Republic, had threatened to attack the power of President Faustin Archang Touadera if he resorted to fraud to win a second term.

The United Nations mission said: The strengthening of MINUSCA's resources, including by air means, is a response to the acts of violence committed by these groups, and also affected Yaluki and Bozum, which are about two hundred kilometers from the capital, Bangui, and resulted in the deaths of two members of the government forces.

In his turn, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, condemned yesterday, "the escalation of violence, calling on all parties to urgently end all forms of hostility," according to his spokesman Stephane Dujarric.

Guterres called on the parties to resolve any dispute peacefully, in the interests of the Central African people who have suffered from conflict and instability for so long.

Armed groups compete for control of the country's resources, especially livestock and minerals, while regularly committing violations against civilians.

The situation escalated in the Central African Republic in early December 2013, when clashes erupted in Bangui between armed groups, predominantly Muslim "Seleka", and "anti-balaka" Christian groups.

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ANHA