Six months ago, the UN Security Council agreed to send an additional 900 troops to the Central African Republic (CAR), reinforcing one of its biggest peacekeeping missions in one of the world’s most dangerous countries.
So far, just 400 have arrived — a worrying sign of the problems that the UN mission, known by its French acronym MINUSCA, is having in coaxing countries into sending men to the flashpoint nation.
Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Ivory Coast and Uruguay are among the countries which were approached, but without success, a UN source said.
In the end, Nepal agreed to provide 600 troops and Rwanda the other 300, the source said, adding, “They should all be there before the mission’s mandate is renewed” in December.
MINUSCA has been in CAR since April 2014, tasked with helping to stabilise the country after a brutal sectarian-tinged civil conflict that France helped to dampen….
Source: Seychelles News Agency
