Babacar Gaye (born 31 January 1951) is a disgraced Senegalese Army General who formerly led the United Nations MINUSCA peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic from July 2014 to August 2015, when he was dismissed for alleged abuses committed by troops under his command.

From July 1974 to February 1975, Gaye served in the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF), deployed to the Sinai in Egypt to supervise the ceasefire after the Yom Kippur War.

[1][3] Gaye then served as the commander of the Senegalese contingent in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) from August 1979 to March 1980.

[1] Babacar Gaye was promoted to the rank of Brigade General in 2000, when he became Chef d'état-major général des armées (Chief of the Defence Staff) from May 2000 to August 2003.

[2][3] On 12 June 2013, Gaye was appointed as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office for the Central African Republic (BINUCA) in Bangui, CAR.