Confirming the difficulties experienced by the Government in making progress towards peace, the reporting period was marked by serious outbreaks of violence, including in areas where the situation had previously improved, such as Bangui and Bambari. “Operation Sukula”, jointly conducted on 7 and 8 April 2018 by the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), internal security forces and the Forces armées centrafricaines (FACA) in the PK5 neighbourhood of Bangui, triggered an increase in intercommunal tensions, with cases of incitement to discrimination and violence and a series of violent clashes from early April to early May, resulting in the highest number of casualties in the capital during a 30-day period since 2014, with at least 70 people killed and 330 injured, most of them civilians.
Midterm Report 2018
