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Salary arrears, labor unrest, and unequal treatment of military officers from different ethnic groups had also been among the causes of the three mutinies against the Patassé government in 1996 and 1997.

The French succeeded in helping it to quell the disturbances, and an African peacekeeping force ( MISAB ) occupied Bangui until 1998 when they were relieved by a United Nations peacekeeping mission ( MINURCA ).

Economic difficulties caused by the looting and destruction during the 1996 and 1997 mutinies, energy crises, and government mismanagement continued to trouble Patassé's government through 2000.

Despite several army mutinies and increasing civic concern both at his erratic style and arbitrary, corrupt method of governing he was re-elected for another 6-year term in September 1999.