The Security Council decided today to increase the authorized size of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) to enhance its ability to perform its priority mandated tasks “in the current evolving context”.

Berbérati, Central African Republic (CAR) – Police officer Ousseynou Ka, of MINUSCA’s Senegalese Formed Police Unit (FPU) deployed to the CAR’s Mambéré-Kadéi prefecture, could not remain indifferent to the distress he witnessed on 8 March 2021.

The COVID-19 pandemic has erased decades of progress towards gender equality.