During the evening of Friday 6 January, the EU condemned the two deadly attacks carried out last week on the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) in the north-west and east of the country.
These attacks, "which cost the lives of three UN peacekeepers and left people wounded, underline the fragility of the peace in the Central African Republic in a decisive period for the country's reconstruction", the spokesperson for the European External Action Service said in a press release.
The attacks, which have not been claimed, killed two UN peacekeepers from Morocco and one from Bangladesh. Offering its condolences to the Moroccan and Bangladeshi governments, to the families of the victims and to MINUSCA, the EU says that a few weeks after the international conference in Brussels to raise support for the recovery of the CAR (see EUROPE 11670), it is more urgent than ever for the government of the Central African Republic, with the support of all its international partners, to implement the national plan for the recovery and consolidation of peace, in particular, in strengthening the capacity of national security forces, disarmament, demobilising and reintegrating armed groups and fighting against impunity. (Original version in French by Aminata Niang)