{"id":49711,"date":"2024-01-15T07:41:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T07:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/un-peacekeeping-mission-starts-withdrawal-from-dr-congo\/"},"modified":"2024-01-15T07:42:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T07:42:55","slug":"un-peacekeeping-mission-starts-withdrawal-from-dr-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/un-peacekeeping-mission-starts-withdrawal-from-dr-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"UN peacekeeping mission starts withdrawal from DR Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONUSCO&#8217;S disengagement will take place in three phases, starting with a complete withdrawal of the military and police components of MONUSCO from the eastern province of South Kivu by April 30, according to a statement issued on Saturday after the joint press conference held by Lutundula and Bintou Keita, UN envoy in the DRC and head of the UN peacekeeping mission.<\/p>\n<p>The second and third phases of the mission&#8217;s drawdown provide for withdrawal from North Kivu and Ituri, two provinces plagued by armed conflicts, with elaborated evaluation in between, reads the statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are fighting for the withdrawal to be effective at the end of December 2024,&#8221; said Lutundula.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After 25 years of presence, MONUSCO will definitely leave the DRC no later than the end of 2024,&#8221; according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 19, 2023, the UN Security Council (UNSC) unanimously adopted Resolution 2717, setting out a comprehensive disengagement plan that includes three phases and the gradual handover of responsibility to the government. However, the UNSC has not yet set a final date for the complete withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>The UN peacekeeping mission has been present in the country since 1999. It is one of the largest and most expensive in the world, with an annual budget of around 1 billion U.S. dollars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the first time, the UNSC adopts a mandate asking MONUSCO to begin its withdrawal from the DRC. This is a historic moment. We will spare no effort with our Congolese partners to bring this process to a successful conclusion. I welcome the desire of the Congolese authorities to make the disengagement of MONUSCO a model of successful transition of a UN peacekeeping operation,&#8221; said Keita.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-62778\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/biteganyijwe_ko_mu_ugushyingo_2023_ingabo_za_loni_ziri_mu_butumwa_bwo_kugarura_amahoro_muri_congo_zizatangira_kuva_muri_iki_gihugu-2bb8e.jpg\" alt=\"MONUSCO&#039;S disengagement will take place in three phases, starting with a complete withdrawal of the military and police components of MONUSCO from the eastern province of South Kivu by April 30. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), commonly known as MONUSCO, has started withdrawal, said Christophe Lutundula, DRC deputy prime minister and foreign Minister.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000062777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-49711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","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":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","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":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000062777,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/biteganyijwe_ko_mu_ugushyingo_2023_ingabo_za_loni_ziri_mu_butumwa_bwo_kugarura_amahoro_muri_congo_zizatangira_kuva_muri_iki_gihugu-2bb8e.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/biteganyijwe_ko_mu_ugushyingo_2023_ingabo_za_loni_ziri_mu_butumwa_bwo_kugarura_amahoro_muri_congo_zizatangira_kuva_muri_iki_gihugu-2bb8e.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/biteganyijwe_ko_mu_ugushyingo_2023_ingabo_za_loni_ziri_mu_butumwa_bwo_kugarura_amahoro_muri_congo_zizatangira_kuva_muri_iki_gihugu-2bb8e.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/biteganyijwe_ko_mu_ugushyingo_2023_ingabo_za_loni_ziri_mu_butumwa_bwo_kugarura_amahoro_muri_congo_zizatangira_kuva_muri_iki_gihugu-2bb8e.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/biteganyijwe_ko_mu_ugushyingo_2023_ingabo_za_loni_ziri_mu_butumwa_bwo_kugarura_amahoro_muri_congo_zizatangira_kuva_muri_iki_gihugu-2bb8e.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/biteganyijwe_ko_mu_ugushyingo_2023_ingabo_za_loni_ziri_mu_butumwa_bwo_kugarura_amahoro_muri_congo_zizatangira_kuva_muri_iki_gihugu-2bb8e.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49711","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000062777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49711"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=49711"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=49711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}