Head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic has resigned over the force’s handling of a series of sexual and other misconduct allegations.
UN Peacekeepers were accused of sexually abusing street children in Bangui and a separate allegation of child sexual abuse against a peacekeeper in the eastern part of the country.
In a statement released by the UN on Tuesday, Ban expressed his consternation regarding a number of allegations concerning the conduct of UN peacekeepers deployed to the CAR.
Amnesty International accused UN peacekeepers in CAR’s capital of indiscriminately killing a 16-year-old boy and his father and raping a 12-year-old girl in separate incidents this month.
UN has a total of 125,000 peacekeepers deployed in 16 missions worldwide.
