More than a decade and billions of dollars after UN peacekeepers deployed to the DRC during a civil war, President Joseph Kabila wants them out.
A withdrawal of the UN mission in the DRC in 2011, as sought by Kinshasa, would be "premature," France’s UN ambassador said on Tuesday.
The UN Security Council on Wednesday extended the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in the strife-torn DRC by five months.
The UN Security Council faces a major headache in the DRC, where it must extend but perhaps also rethink the mandate of a UN peacekeeping force.
Authorities in the DRC have approached the UN about scaling down the large UN mission in the country, a government spokesperson said.
The UN head of peacekeeping in the DRC has rejected accusations that the organisation is complicit in war crimes Congolese troops allegedly committed.
The world’s largest UN peacekeeping effort risks unraveling in the the DRC, hampered by the potential loss of more than a quarter of its troops
Early in the morning the warnings came: rebels notorious for vicious attacks on civilians were advancing.
The leader of Rwandan Hutu rebels on Wednesday predicted that intense fighting would erupt within days in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
A 17 000-strong peacekeeping mission in the DRC is no longer equal to the task after a recent upsurge in fighting, a top UN official says.
The commander of UN peacekeepers in the DRC says his troops are ”dissatisfied” because they are unable to protect civilians as they would like.
Amnesty International called on Friday on the United Nations’ peacekeeping force in eastern DRC to do a better job of protecting civilians.
At least 150 civilians were massacred in a Democratic Republic of Cong town last month, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday.
Rebels in eastern DRC have violated a fragile ceasefire and seized more territory, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
Special envoy Olusegun Obasanjo will embark on a second peace mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo this weekend, the UN said on Tuesday.
The UN Security Council is overcoming its reluctance to send more peacekeepers to help avert a new war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Rebel troops were poised outside the Congolese city of Goma on Friday as the EU mulled sending troops to the strife-torn region to prevent a disaster.
Rebels in the DRC closed on the eastern city of Goma on Wednesday, sparking chaotic scenes as government forces and refugees scrambled to leave.
The Security Council will probably authorise deployment of special forces and military hardware to help UN troops better protect civilians in the DRC.
The DRC’s powder-keg east is being bled dry as Kinshasa and Rwanda refuse to bury the hatchet, analysts say.
