International Conference on the Great Lakes Region Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/international-conference-on-the-great-lakes-region/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 27 Oct 2016 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 International Conference on the Great Lakes Region Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/international-conference-on-the-great-lakes-region/ 32 32 Call to bolster MONUSCO for fear of violence over DRC election delay https://jjcornish.com/2016/10/call-bolster-monusco-fear-violence-drc-election-delay/ Thu, 27 Oct 2016 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2016/10/call-bolster-monusco-fear-violence-drc-election-delay/ Leaders of the Great Lakes region say fears of increased violence because of delayed in elections in Democratic Republic of Congo mean the UN peacekeeping force in that strife-torn country must be beefed up. They say the troops must come from the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region and the Southern African Development Community. […]

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]]> Leaders of the Great Lakes region say fears of increased violence because of delayed in elections in Democratic Republic of Congo mean the UN peacekeeping force in that strife-torn country must be beefed up.

They say the troops must come from the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region and the Southern African Development Community.

Two days of talks in Luanda, at which South Africa’s Minister for International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana Mashebane was present, ended with a statement that the goal is to strengthen the operations of the UN force MONUSCO in fighting the negative forces in the DRC.

11 countries participated in the talks.

MONUSCO currently has more than 20,000 troops in the DRC protecting civilians and disarming dozens of rebel and splinter groups after two decades of conflict in the east of the country.

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