Moroccan peacekeepers patrol in the Central African Republic - in pictures

A 12,000-strong UN peacekeeping force, MINUSCA, has kept armed rebel groups far from the capital, Bangui, with help from hundreds of Rwandan troops and Russian paramilitaries sent to shore up the country's ragged army

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  Moroccan peacekeepers from the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in the Central African Republic (Minusca) go on patrol in Bangassou. The south-eastern city was attacked by hundreds of militiamen from the Coalition of Patriots for Change, causing tens of thousands of people to flee into the bush and neighbouring DR Congo. Since late last year, the rebel coalition has taken control of main roads and several of CAR’s major cities. AFP

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  Peacekeepers go on patrol in Bangassou. A peacekeeper from Morocco was among two killed in an attack about 17 kilometres outside the embattled city in January. AFP

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  A man pushes a bicycle in front of a convoy of Moroccan peacekeepers. AFP

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  Peacekeepers stand guard outside the office of the Mouvement Coeurs Unis, the party of the newly re-elected President Faustin-Archange Touadera, in Bangassou. AFP

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  Moroccan peacekeepers on patrol in Bangassou. AFP

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  Families displaced by conflict watch as a convoy of UN peacekeepers passes by on the outskirts of Bangassou. AFP

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