A contingent of special rapid reaction force will be deployed in eastern DRC to hunt down the armed groups operating in the area.
This special force will be mainly from Southern Africa Community Development Community SADC brigade.
The deployment was announced January 30, by MONUSCO spokesman, Lt. Col. Felix Bass saying it’s an initiative of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) and the Community Development Community (SADC), will be composed of elements taken from a SADC Brigade.
During the weekly UN conference in Kinshasa, Lt. Col. Bass explained that this force will consist of 2500 men, some of whom are from ” SADC Standby Brigade ” already “Standby” he said.
Tanzania and South Africa had also pledged to contribute in the creation of this task force.
Lt. Col. Bass stated, however, that a battalion of peacekeepers South African MONUSCO will be attached to this force.
“The MONUSCO, as usual, will be next and could integrate its forces [in the intervention force], once the framework agreement to be signed in Addis Ababa will be signed,” said Lt. Col. Bass.
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