CAR: Peacekeeping Mandate Renewed as Attacks Continue

Expand An internally displaced camp for Peuhl in Sibut, Kemo province, Central African Republic, where survivors of the Amo attack were living in October 2019. © 2019 Human Rights Watch (Nairobi) – The peacekeeping force in the Central African Republic, whose mandate the United Nations Security Council renewed on November 14, 2019, should strengthen civilian protection and maximize its role in securing justice. The peacekeeping mission, known as MINUSCA, should work with the country’s special court for grave crimes committed by armed groups to identify how it can best fulfil its mandate to…

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