AFP: Two UN troops killed in C. Africa as president’s re-election confirmed

Rebels killed two peacekeepers in the Central African Republic on Monday, the UN mission MINUSCA said, hours after the top court confirmed President Faustin Archange Touadera’s re-election in a December vote marred by low turnout.

The peacekeepers — a Gabonese and a Moroccan — were killed in an ambush on their convoy near the southern city of Bangassou, a city that the UN said at the weekend had been retaken from armed groups who had seized it two weeks earlier…

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