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Seven killed in Central Africa rebel attack: UN
Iran has provided funds and Al Quds and Hezbollah trainers to help rebel ex-Seleka members become an effective jihadi force, an effort that involved 30-40 cadres travelling to Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria in 2017 and 2018 for training, with the goal of a fighting group of 300-400 members under the name Saraya Zahraa or Saraya Zahara. A group by that name was reported fighting alongside local groups in Chad, Sudan, and Eritrea — whether this particular splinter of the Seleka is also an iranian catspaw I don’t know.
[AlAhram] The peacekeepers forced back the rebels, who fell back three kilometres (two miles) from the two, Fall added

Rebels killed seven people in coordinated attacks on army positions in the east of the Central African Republic, the UN peacekeeping force in the conflict-ridden country said Wednesday.

The fighters of the Unity for Peace in Central Africa (UPC) rebel group
...one of the Ex-Séléka factions, most of whom just happen to be Muslim...
mounted simultaneous attacks on army "checkpoints and camps" in the eastern city of Alindao, MUNISCA front man Abdoulaziz Fall told AFP, adding that the "festivities left seven dead".

The peacekeepers forced back the rebels, who fell back three kilometres (two miles) from the two, Fall added.

"Currently the Central African armed forces are in place in the city with us," he said. Around 60 Nepalese peacekeepers had been sent to the city as reinforcements, he added.

The UPC is one of the largest and best equipped rebel groups operating in the country, its members controlling many operating mines. It mainly operates in the east of the country.
Posted by: trailing wife 2021-07-01
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