The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations peacebuilding office in the country, authorised the use of force by European Union troops, and added travel bans and asset freezes to an arms embargo already in place.
More than 6,000 child soldiers may now be involved in the conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR), with their numbers growing as fighting pits community against community in clashes that have taken on increasingly sectarian overtones, the United Nations reported today.