Content_paragraphs:  The special mixed security units remained non-operational in Bouar and Paoua 
  
  due to absence of military orders, while many elements reportedly deserted or 
  
  defected, often with weapons. Lack of internal cohesion, command and  control, and 
  
  insufficient sustainment, as well as interpersonal tensions, also plagued these units. 
  
  The training center in Ndélé in the north-east was completed; the start of actual 
  
  training was postponed principally owing to delays by armed groups in finalizing lists 
  
  of candidates. On 11 November, the President chaired a ceremony marking the launch 
  
  of the integration process of 292 ex-combatants into the national defence and internal 
  
  security forces, including 15 women.  
  
   
  
    Local dialogue and reconciliation