President Obama has announced countries across the world have pledged to contribute more than 40,000 new troops to the U.N. peacekeeping forces. It is unclear whether additional U.S. troops will be included. The announcement comes as the peacekeeping forces have faced a growing number of allegations of sexual abuse. In the Central African Republic, U.N. forces have been accused of multiple incidents of rape and of trading sex with young boys for food and money at a displaced persons’ camp outside the capital Bangui.