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French-made Panhard ERC Sagaie armoured car in UN colours. I want to say Former Yugoslavia, except that civilian appears to be black...

Africa

Chad
Central African Repubic
Uganda

Somewhere in those areas, those trees appear to be pine trees and theres dry sandy soil

But what would UN troops be doing there? The Frenchies would be under their own colours...

White vehicle against green trees... someone needs to go back to camoflauge 101 [:D]

That's kinda the point of UN troops - they're supposed to be visible...

I'm very sure the French have sold those armored cars to qualified buyer members of the UN.[:D]

Actually not that many. Production of the ERC commenced in 1979, and they were made for Iraq, Mexico, Niger, Argentina as well as France.

An armored car from Niger as part of an all African UN peace keeping force in?

I was also thinking sub Sahara along the Gold Coast a lot of civilwars the past 20 years or so.

Maybe...

You may be correct about the former Yugoslavia location.

United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR)

1992 to present (Not sure as too date referring to present)

Troops, Police & Observers were present from Black African Nations.

Force Commander was French - French Troops 4,493

Personel, Troops, Police & Observers from:

Ghana
Kenya
Nigeria

I can guarantee you UNPROFOR doesn't exist anymore.

The orange soil certainly looks like Africa, I don't know if it could be MONUC in Ituri, Congo or anything similar.

Panhard ERC, it is[:)]


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From Image source:

"Byumba, Rwanda. 1995-04. A French Panhard ERC 90 F4 Sagaie Armoured Car painted in United Nations (UN) pointing its 90mm gun down the approach road to Byumba. At night a powerful searchlight mounted on the turret illuminated the approach to a distance of approximately two kilometres. The French provided amoured units as part of their contribution to the United Nations Assistance Mission In Rwanda (UNAMIR). (Donor Cpl J. White). "

What I was reading from wasn't to current and alot of what I new to be pretty old all said "to present", which I new was not correct.

Thanks for the info from the image source.

I was curious as to why it appears dry in that area, got out my NG map of Africa and Rwanda is at the head of the Great Rift Valley, that explains it.