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STORY: UN / CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC UPDATE
TRT: 00:54
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 01 JULY 2026, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
01 JULY 2026, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric walks up to the press room podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“A note from Central African Republic, where the Head of our peacekeeping mission there, Valentine Rugwabiza, strongly condemned an attack carried out yesterday by members of armed groups in Am Dafock, on the border with Sudan, as well as gunfire targeting a peacekeeping temporary operating base there. Three of our Zambian peacekeeping colleagues were injured, including one seriously, as they were conducting a patrol to protect civilians. The injured peacekeepers were airlifted to appropriate medical facilities. They are in stable condition and we which them a quick recovery. As you are aware, attacks against UN peacekeepers may constitute war crimes under international law.”
4. Wide shot, Dujarric walks away
United Nations Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric today (1 Jul) told journalists in New York that an attack carried out by members of armed groups in Am Dafock, Central African Republic’s border with Sudan, injured three Zambian peacekeepers, one seriously.
The peacekeepers, Dujarric said, were hit by gunfire “as they were conducting a patrol to protect civilians,” and “were airlifted to appropriate medical facilities,” and are “in stable condition.”
The spokesperson stressed, “attacks against UN peacekeepers may constitute war crimes under international law.”
