{More than 100 UN peacekeepers will be sent home from the Central African Republic after an investigation into sex abuse allegations, the UN says.}<\/p>\n
The UN says it is investigating eight new reports of sex abuse, following more than 20 previous allegations.<\/p>\n
One 14 year-old says she was raped by an armed soldier near the airport.<\/p>\n
The 120 soldiers who will be repatriated are from Congo-Brazzaville. During the investigation, they will be confined to barracks.<\/p>\n
Living under a shadow of fear<\/p>\n
{{Road to anarchy}}<\/p>\n
Last week the UN said European troops were implicated in child sex abuse allegations.<\/p>\n
Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, the UN envoy for CAR, travelled to Bambari, the country’s second biggest city where the latest abuse allegedly occurred, on Thursday.
\nHe expressed outrage and shame.<\/p>\n
There is “sufficient initial evidence” that five of the alleged victims are minors and one adult has been sexually exploited, according to a fact-finding expert sent to the city.
\nThe NGO Human Rights Watch said most of the abuse occurred while the Congolese peacekeepers were temporarily deployed to protect the city’s airport.<\/p>\n
UN assistant secretary-general Anthony Banbury said there are likely to be 22 confirmed allegations of sexual abuse or exploitation in the UN’s peacekeeping mission in CAR. That may rise as a result of the latest allegations.<\/p>\n
Last week, the UN said a number of girls aged between 14 and 16 alleged they had been raped by Georgian members of the EU’s operation Eufor in CAR.<\/p>\n
A seven-year-old girl and a nine-year-old boy said they were abused by French troops.
\nThe troops were sent to stem violence between Christian militias and largely Muslim rebels.<\/p>\n
{{‘Gross institutional failure’}}<\/p>\n
The rebels seized power in March 2013 – in response, the militias took up arms against them.<\/p>\n
Last December an independent panel criticised the UN’s handling of abuse allegations in the CAR, calling it “seriously flawed” and a “gross institutional failure”.<\/p>\n
It accused senior UN officials of abusing their authority by failing to take action over allegations of abuse by soldiers from France, Equatorial Guinea and Chad.<\/p>\n
A 10,000-strong UN force took over a peacekeeping mission in September 2014.<\/p>\n
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