{"id":18163,"date":"2015-01-07T00:39:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T00:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/drc-unwilling-to-disarm-fdlr-un-boss-recommends-a\/"},"modified":"2015-01-07T00:41:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T00:41:26","slug":"drc-unwilling-to-disarm-fdlr-un-boss-recommends-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/drc-unwilling-to-disarm-fdlr-un-boss-recommends-a\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC unwilling to disarm FDLR, UN boss recommends a 10% reduction of MONUSCO Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"

{While DRC is reluctant to take tough measures towards the eradication of FDLR rebels in its Eastern Region, the Secretary-General of the UN, Ban Ki-moon, on the other side, has recommended a 10% reduction in military strength of MONUSCO or from 20 000 men to 18 000.}<\/p>\n

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According to AFP, Ban Ki-moon made this recommendation, last weekend, in a report which, however, is not yet published but transmitted to the Security Council in view of the renewal of the mandate of MONUSCO in March. <\/p>\n

The development comes at the time credible information has emerged that the UN peacekeeping arm in DR Congo (MONUSCO) is sabotaging efforts to disarm FDLR rebels.<\/p>\n

Sources in the Rwandan government told a local media that MONUSCO is downplaying the process for the rebels to peacefully disarm.<\/p>\n

FDLR was expected to voluntarily disarm before January 2, according to a UN resolution.<\/p>\n

In the meantime Ban also recommended to “extend for a further year the deployment of MONUSCO’s intervention Brigade” made of 3000 strong men from Tanzania, Malawi and South Africa. <\/p>\n

Eastern DR Congo observers have previously noted that Tanzanian and South African troops which lead the 3,000-strong special UN Force Intervention Brigade (FIB) – the first UN peacekeeping unit mandated to neutralise armed groups there – under Monusco – cannot be trusted to root out the FDLR rebels.<\/p>\n

However the UN also requires that the Brigade is “made more energetic” and the other components of MONUSCO “play a more active role in the protection of civilians.” <\/p>\n

Contacted by AFP, Lambert Mende, spokesman for the Congolese government welcome the recommendation of Ban Ki-moon. <\/p>\n

Present in the DRC for 15 years, the power of MONUSCO has some 20,000 soldiers and a thousand police, mainly deployed in the east of the country, plagued by armed conflict for over 20 years. <\/p>\n

Until now it is not clear whether MONUSCO and DRC are committed to the fully disarmament of the FDLR except many communiqu\u00e9 that are being released by concerned sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{While DRC is reluctant to take tough measures towards the eradication of FDLR rebels in its Eastern Region, the Secretary-General of the UN, Ban Ki-moon, on the other side, has recommended a 10% reduction in military strength of MONUSCO or from 20 000 men to 18 000.} According to AFP, Ban Ki-moon made this recommendation, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000055764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-18163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":{"id":2000055764,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton18163.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton18163.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton18163.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton18163.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton18163.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton18163.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000055764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18163"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=18163"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=18163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}