The spokesman for the United Nations Force in Central Africa, Lieutenant Colonel Abdelaziz Ouadraogo, said that “armed elements of the Central African Peacekeeping Group, a major rebel group, committed violence against the population and killed ten people” in the village of Bokolobo. , which is more than 400 km northeast of the capital Bangui.

In his statement, he indicated that “they attacked the positions of the security forces”, noting that “in response to these atrocities, the forces immediately sent Mauritanian UN soldiers to protect the population”, adding that “a Nepalese battalion patrol was also sent to the site, to ensure protection of the civilian population.

Since 2013, a civil war has been going on in the Central African Republic, which has subsided since 2018. At the end of 2020, the most powerful rebel groups, which controlled two-thirds of the country’s territory, launched an offensive against Bangui in the run-up to the elections. In response, Tuadira turned to Moscow for help. Hundreds of Russian paramilitaries joined hundreds of others who have been present since 2018, and within months managed to repel the rebels and drive them out of most of the lands and cities under their control.