This year’s International Day of Peace comes at a crisis point for humanity. COVID-19 has turned our world upside-down. Conflicts are spinning out of control. The climate emergency is worsening. Inequality and poverty are…
The outgoing commander of the European Union Training Mission in the Central African Republic (EUTM CAR), Brigadier General Paulo Neves de Abreu, handed over the reins of the organization to his successor on 11 September 2021…
Olga Simandele is certified in conflict resolution and mediation. She is a member of the Third-Party Neutral (TPN) group from Kaga-Bandoro, composed of community leaders and other community members as well as local…
How can prisons in the Central African Republic (CAR) be improved to promote reintegration? This was the theme of a capacity-building workshop organized by MINUSCA for key actors in the national penal reform sector. On the…
652 new police officers – among them 183 women – were welcomed into the ranks of the Internal Security Forces of the Central African Republic (CAR) during a ceremony held at the National Police Academy in Bangui on 25 August…
Life after prison may seem like a daunting prospect. But 22-year-old former inmate and mother-of-two, Judith Ngouvela, quickly found her feet after incarceration – thanks to vocational training she received while behind bars…
200 peacekeepers from the MINUSCA Indonesian Engineering Company were, on 17 August 2021, awarded United Nations service medals for their contribution to peace and stability in the Central African Republic (CAR). “You have…
Humanitarian workers are here to help the world’s most vulnerable people when disaster strikes. But around the world, aid workers face growing threats. In the past 20 years, shootings, kidnappings, and other attacks on…
With the promise of youth in the limelight as the 2021 International Youth Day is celebrated around the world, the MINUSCA Force organized an Open Day for young people – to help sow the seeds of peacekeeping, to help inspire…
As the seventh largest contributor of troops to UN peacekeeping operations at present, the Arab Republic of Egypt certainly pulls its weight in working to contribute to global peace. In the Central African Republic (CAR), 990…
The donation from the MINUSCA Cameroonian Formed Police Unit to the infirmary of the Ngaragba central men’s prison in Bangui, Central African Republic (CAR) might not have looked like much, but when the prison’s head nurse…
The UN peacekeeping Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) welcomed 300 Rwandan peacekeepers on 3 August 2021. Deployment of the additional boots on the ground is aimed at strengthening the Mission’s capacity. The…