Staff Reporter:
Chief of Army Staff General Waker-Uz-Zaman yesterday left Dhaka for the Central African Republic on a three-day official visit.
During the visit, he will inspect the activities of Bangladeshi contingents stationed in the Central African Republic and also different programmes of Bangladeshi peacekeepers present there, a press release of Inter-Services Public Relation (ISPR) said.
Apart from this, the Army chief is scheduled to inaugurate a community clinic constructed by the Bang-ladesh Army peacekeepers for providing medical services to the people of that country.
Currently, a total of five contingents of the Bangladesh Army are now being engaged in peacekeeping missions in the Central African Republic, it said.
Moreover, since 2014, a total of 9,961 army personnel have served as peacekeepers and 11 have sacri-ficed their lives while engaged in peacekeeping operations in this conflict-ridden African country, the release added.
