Pakistani peacekeepers help recover bodies of plane crash victims in DRC Tuesday, September 09, 2008 UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations peacekeepers from Pakistan in Uruguay and South Africa helped recover the remains of the 17 passengers on board an aid flight that went down in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last Monday, said a UN press release. The plane “operated by the United States-based...
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Kinshasa, Sept 11: UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have transferred troops to hotspots in the east of the country to handle the fallout of increased fighting there between rebels and the Army....
Kinshasa - MONUC, the UN Mission in DRC, which has 14 000 peacekeepers deployed in the country, had moved troops from Sud-Kivu and Ituri towards Nord-Kivu, which borders Uganda and Rwanda, said a spokesperson. Fighting...