UN sacks CAR mission boss over rape claims

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Wednesday he had fired the organisation’s mission chief in the Central African Republic (CAR) after a string of allegations of child sex abuse and excessive use of force by peacekeepers.

Senegalese diplomat Babacar Gaye “tendered his resignation at my request”, Ban told reporters at the UN’s headquarters in New York.

The announcement comes after Amnesty International accused peacekeepers with the UN’s CAR mission, known as MINUSCA, of raping a 12-year-old girl and killing a boy and his father during an operation in the country’s capital

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