Photo Credit: Refugees Internaitonal
11/14/2007

UN Peacekeepers struggle to keep the peace in the volatile region of North Kivu. After the 2006 elections, the new government assumed formal responsibility for the intractable security problems, incomplete disarmament and demobilization processes, and protection challenges in the east, taking over from the UN peacekeeping operation, MONUC. MONUC continues to ‘support the transition’ and to provide training and operational assistance to the Congolese army, but an inadequately resourced and supported security sector reform program has contributed to the Congolese army becoming a major source of insecurity for civilian communities in the east.