UN force to ‘fight rebels’ in DRC

by admin
Jan 24, 2013

An UN official has told reporters that the body wants to send troops to intervene in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to fight rebels in the east of the country.

The official said that an intervention force of 2,500 soldiers would be added to the UN’s existing Monusco peace keeping mission in the country.

A political plan to end the violence is also set to be signed in Addis Ababa by the leaders of the DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, Angola, the Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), Tanzania and South Africa, reported the BBC.

"Following the Goma crisis there was a realization here that after more than 10 years of UN engagement in the DRC there was a need to look at things differently to break the cycle of violence in the east," said the UN official.

"So we tried to go for the heart of the problem and see why these cycles are on-going."

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