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Cameroon Sends Military to Troubled CAR

Moki Edwin Kindzeka

   YAOUNDE, CAMEROON - Cameroon is dispatching more than a thousand troops
   to help bring peace to its troubled neighbor, the Central African
   Republic. The troops are leaving as analysts say they are already
   stretched handling such internal crises as piracy in the Gulf of
   Guinea, the Boko Haram insurgency and the separatist crisis that has
   left at least 3,000 killed in three years.

   The Cameroon military band plays as the first contingent of over 300
   peacekeeping troops leaves for the neighboring Central African Republic
   on September 4. Cameroon's defense minister, Joseph Beti Assomo, said
   they have been well trained to join the U.N. peacekeeping mission of
   more than 13,000 troops, police and civilians to restore peace to the
   Central African Republic while respecting the rights and dignity of the
   people they are protecting.

   "Always determined to fulfill his regional and international commitment
   as concerns collective security, the head of state, commander in chief
   of the armed forces has provided the Central African Republic with
   multifaceted support in order to enable the country to get its
   institutions which have already been damaged back on the feet," he
   said.

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