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Cameroon Deploys Peacekeeping Troops to CAR for Election Stability

Moki Edwin Kindzeka

   MOTCHEBOUM, CAMEROON - Cameroon is sending hundreds of troops and
   police to the Central African Republic to protect civilians and build
   peace ahead of December elections.

   The troops, under the U.N.'s Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization
   Mission (MINUSCA), finished training this week in the border village of
   Motcheboum.

   Cameroon's defense minister, Joseph Beti Assomo, says the troops would
   foster peace by protecting civilians, election staff, their materials,
   international observers and refugees returning to the C.A.R.

   Years of political instability and fighting between armed groups have
   displaced nearly a quarter of the Central African Republic's people.

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