Two decades ago, a UN force landed in the Democratic Republic of Congo to keep the peace in a volatile territory almost overrun by armed militias. But with the insurgents still on the prowl ...

For decades, the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been engulfed in cycles of violence, displacement, and human suffering. Much of this turmoil has unfolded under the watchful ...

Dozens of people were killed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo this week during demonstrations against the United Nations’ mission in the country.

Democratic Republic of Congo has asked the spokesman of the U.N. peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO, to leave the country, blaming him for stoking tensions that led to deadly protests last week.

MONUSCO has a staff strength of over 17,000 in the DRC, comprising 14,000 military personnel, according to data last updated on its website in February this year.

In any case, MONUSCO can stay only as long as the Congolese government wants it to. It is meant to work alongside the national army. Whereas Congo’s former president, Joseph Kabila, routinely ...

U.N. officials this month announced a sweeping review of MONUSCO’s peacekeeping mission to determine how to better assist Congo civilians. In 2000, when the force first arrived in the capital ...

The Associated Press witnessed the dilemma on a rare visit and night patrol with the U.N. force now known as MONUSCO, which entered Congo more than two decades ago and has 14,000 peacekeepers on ...

From May 2024, MONUSCO will be present only in North Kivu and Ituri. And from July 1, its strength will be reduced by some 2,350 personnel from a maximum authorized strength of around 13,800 ...

MONUSCO has been deployed in Congo since 2010, when it took over from an earlier U.N. operation to secure the troubled eastern region that borders Rwanda.