BANGUI : U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, left, shakes hands with people at Bangassou Cathedral Bangui, Central African Republic, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has travelled to one of the most volatile towns in Central African Republic, where he thanked peacekeepers for their “extraordinary courage.” Nine United Nations peacekeepers have been killed so far this year in Bangassou, a town in the southeast where fighting has surged in recent months. (AP/PTI )