The United Nations says it has received new allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation against U.N.

peacekeepers from Morocco and Burundi in Central African Republic.U.N. spokesman STEPHANE DUJARRIC said the allegations include one that involved a 14-year-old girl.DUJARRIC said Burundian peacekeepers had been accused of raping a 14-year-old girl earlier this month, while a Moroccan soldier had been accused of engaging in an exploitative sexual relationship with a woman in February.The UN spokesman said Morocco and Burundi had been notified of the allegations, and each country has ten days to inform the United Nations if it intends to investigate the accusations.There have been dozens of such accusations against peacekeepers in Central African Republic, where the U.N. peacekeeping mission, known as MINUSCA, assumed authority from African Union troops in September 2014.Similar allegations forced the resignation of the previous head of the U.N. mission in Central African Republic, BABACAR GAYE, in August last year.
Some eight hundred Congolese peacekeepers were also repatriated last month for the same reason.