At least three people have been killed in the Bambari region in the centre of the country.

Some ex-Seleka rebel militants and armed Fulani members are trying to rubbish the ongoing efforts to effectively implement the Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) of former rebel fighters in the Central African Republic.

Just at the moment, over 3,154 former armed grouped militants registered within the framework of the DDR process, some former Seleka rebel group militants, as well as Fulani armed gunmen, on Saturday, July 23, 2016, invaded the Ngakobo locality, some 30 kilometres from the hitherto restive Bambari region in the centre of the country  and killed about three people and injured several others  in sporadic  shooting, news agency reported citing local Gendarmerie sources. Isaac Gonaba an eyewitness reportedly testified that one of the three people killed was his teacher colleague and two others were staff of a local sugar processing company called “Sucaf.”

Reports say calm had returned to Ngakobo by Sunday, July 24 morning despite the fact that the armed men were still visibly perceptible. The invasion had forced hundreds of residents to seek refuge in nearby bushes. The locality of Ngakobo, reports say,  had been at the heart of rebel attacks between 2013 and 2015.

The sporadic rebel attacks does not however, completely dampen hopes of disarmament and return to stability  as Faustin Archange Touadéra’s  government supported by the UN peacekeepers, MINUSCA  are determined to forge ahead with the DDR process launched in October 2015. The appointment of Chilien Fabrizio Hochschild as the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon  in MINUSCA gives more hope and is a bolster in the efforts to secure peace and stability.