Central African Republic to get peacekeepers from Cambodia
First Post | 14 October 2014
Phnom Penh, Oct 14 (IANS)
Cambodia will send the first batch of 216 military personnel to join a
UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) later this
month, a military official has revealed.
According to Gen. Sem
Sovanny, director-general of the Cambodian National Center for
Peacekeeping Force, some 20 leading forces of the group left Cambodia
for the CAR Monday afternoon to prepare shelters for the whole group,
who will fly there Oct 23.
"The group will conduct humanitarian
activities in the Central African Republic, including demining,
constructing roads and bridges, producing drinking water and providing
medical treatment to civilians," Xinhua quoted him as saying.
A
civil war in the CAR broke out in December 2012 between mostly Muslim
Seleka rebels and the government forces. Seleka rebels took power from
then president Francois Bozize in March 2013 and the rebels' leader
Michel Djotodia declared himself as president.
Sporadic violence has continued to plague the CAR
despite Michel Djotodia 's resignation from the presidency in January
and the formation of a transition government led by Catherine
Samba-Panza.
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