News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

Rarely have parliamentary sessions attracted so many people. Besides the MPs and their supporters, ordinary citizens attended this crucial moment in the country’s democratic life. On May 3, within the grounds of the National Assembly in Bangui, the new members -- who had been elected by the Central…

The top United Nations official in the Central African Republic (CAR) met this week with the new National Assembly, which took office after a series of successful elections supported by UN peacekeepers in the country. Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head…

More than three years of violence have dismantled the already very fragile health structures in the Central African Republic (CAR), bringing the government service delivery capacity to a complete stop, and leaving thousands of people vulnerable to diseases and with little access to health services…

Briefing the General Assembly on the challenges being faced and progress being made to end the exploitation and abuse by United Nations peacekeepers, senior UN officials today indicated that immediate concerns have been focused on providing protection and support to the victims, and reiterated the…

MINUSCA has started on Tuesday, 17 May, a series of meetings with youth, women, religious leaders and traditional chiefs in Bangui to inform them about measures implemented by the mission to prevent and combat sexual exploitation and abuse committed by peacekeepers. In recent months the UN mission…

The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) deplores the death of a Central African civilian which occurred on 5 June 2016 during an incident in which a group of supporters set upon a MINUSCA battalion assigned to presidential…

Two peacekeepers of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), Alex Katurebe and Mbot Gustave Maitre, from Rwanda and Cameroon respectively, succumbed to their injuries on June 5 2016, as a result of traffic accidents. The accident…

The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) calls on communities of PK5, in the 3rd district of Bangui, to exercise restraint and calm. The Mission urges them not to give way to violence, revenge and manipulation. In this regard…

The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) takes note of the report published by Human Rights Watch on 7 June 2016 on the killings allegedly committed by soldiers of the Republic of Congo in Boali, Mambéré and Berberati between…

The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) is deeply concerned by the escalating violence seen since June 10, 2016 in Ngaoundaye, Ouham Pende Prefecture, in the west of CAR. A series of attacks and retaliation acts between self…

Peacekeepers of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) mounted a military operation in the PK5 area of Bangui in the early afternoon of 20 June 2016 to extract Central African and UN policemen from the Commissariat building…

The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) welcomes the release of the six Central African policemen who were held hostages by armed elements. MINUSCA applauds the perseverance of the negotiating team that contributed to their…