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U.N.Peacekeepers in the Central African Republic rocked by new allegations of sex abuses
Presented with the findings on Wednesday, Onanga-Anyanga said the allegations of under-age sex would be thoroughly investigated. “This is completely unacceptable behavior by MINUSCA peacekeepers,” he told the reporters in Bangui.
From the United Nations in New York, MINUSCA said in a draft of a statement that it would dispatch a multifunctional team to Bambari to gather facts and take immediate preventive and disciplinary measures as well as corrective action against 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.
MINUSCA was set up to help stabilize Central African Republic after it was plunged into turmoil in early 2013 when Muslim rebels from a group called Seleka seized power in the majority-Christian country, provoked a violent backlash.
Seleka handed power to a transitional government in 2014 under international pressure and the country is due to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on December 13 this year.
Source: Reuters
