Central Africa in discussion at the UN Security Council

Central Africa in the news - more insight into the country in English:


This Monday the Council is examining the Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's five proposals on the international community's support to the MISCA, the African force set to operate in CAR from December 19.
The UN Security Council plans to vote in early December on a resolution that would allow the Central African Republic (CAR) 's neighbours, the African Union and France to intervene.

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Today the UN Security Council will be discussing ways for the international community to strengthen its aid to MISCA, the African Union-led peacekeeping mission.

The Force is set to be made up of some 3500 soldiers, mainly from neighbouring states.
On Friday the AU formerly appointed General Jean Marie Michel Mokoko from the Republic of Congo to lead the mission.

The UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon has laid out 5 options to be considered by the international community.

One of which involves bilateral aid from neighbouring countries and Western partners to the Central African Republic, that observers view as the least effective option.

Another deemed the strongest of the five options involves transforming the AU Force into a UN peacekeeping mission and almost doubling its numbers.
This is the most expensive and therefore the least likely to be agreed on but the Security Council.

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Since March this year and the fall of François Bozizé's government, insecurity has been ramping in the Central African Republic.
This past week, the American Secretary of State John Kerry even called the situation as "a pre-genocidal phase", followed by French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius.

While the country's transitional authorities led by interim president Michel Djotodia are trying to minimise these statements, it remains undeniable violence has reached a critical stage, fostering unprecedented sectarian bloodshed, with fighting between the mainly Muslim former rebels who seized power in March and militia
groups set up to protect Christian communities, which make up about 80 percent of the population.

The Force is long-awaited on the ground, as it has almost day to day been eight months since the coup that push former President François Bozizé out of power (March 24th).