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The UN Security Council late Tuesday extended the world`s largest UN peacekeeping mission stationed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) until the end of 2007. It said it did so to stabilise the fledging DR Congo government following democratic elections late last year. The Council, however, ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2007-05-17)
The UN Security Council voted late yesterday to keep its peacekeeping mission in Congo at its current size through mid-February but opened the door to possible cutbacks after that. The mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now the world body's largest peacekeeping force, with nearly 18 000 ...
Read Story at SABCNews (2006-09-30)
The United Nations says reports of an Ugandan army incursion into Congo were "credible" after peacekeepers conducted a verification mission in the remote northeastern border region. A spokesperson for the UN peacekeeping mission in Congo, says peacekeepers found a "convergence of testimonies" about the uniformed soldiers near Aba, a ...
Read Story at SABCNews (2006-04-30)
The UN has fired one employee and suspended six others without pay over allegations of sexual misconduct in the Democratic Republic of Congo. UN spokesman Fred Eckhardt said one other member of the peacekeeping mission in DR Congo had resigned instead of facing disciplinary action. He said action ...
Read Story at BBC News (2005-03-21)
General Maurice Baril of Canada has been leading an evaluation mission of UN peacekeeping operations in DR Congo to determine the efficiency of the armed forces and civilian police in the UN Mission in DR Congo (MONUC). According to MONUC spokesperson, Rachelle Kela, the evaluation was being done based ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2006-02-13)
UN officials are investigating reports that up to 100 people may have been killed when armed fighters attacked several passenger boats in Congo"s lawless northeast last week. The UN peacekeeping mission, which has thousands of troops in Congo to help end a five-year civil war, could not confirm the death ...
Read Story at SABCNews (2004-01-23)
The UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Friday announced the arrest of another rebel leader held responsible for murdering peacekeepers, bringing to four the number of suspects captured on charges of war crimes. The UN peacekeeping mission in Congo, known by its French acronym MONUC, said ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2006-05-13)
United Nations officials said on Friday that they were investigating reports that up to 100 people may have been killed when armed fighters attacked several passenger boats in Congo"s lawless north-east last week. The UN peacekeeping mission, which has thousands of troops in Congo to help end a five-year ...
Read Story at IndependentOnline (2004-01-23)
President Jorge Battle Ibanez of Uruguay has hailed the work accomplished his country`s 1,800- strong contingent in the UN peacekeeping force in DR Congo. At a news conference here Thursday during a 48-hour visit, Ibanez noted that the peace mission in DR Congo was very difficult inasmuch as more than ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2004-05-02)
Benin is to send 650 soldiers to boost the UN mission in DR Congo in the first quarter of 2005, Brigadier Fernand Amoussou, Chief of Benin Armed Forces, said Tuesday. Addressing a press conference in Cotonou on his country`s plans to strengthen the African peacekeeping capacities (RECAMP IV), he ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2004-11-24)
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