GREAT LAKES: IRIN-CEA Update 1,045
DRC: Mbandaka mission to consider UN troop deployment
A joint mission from the DRC Ministry of Defence and the UN Mission in the
DRC (MONUC) is to undertake reconnaissance in Mbandaka, Equateur province,
next week to explore the possibility of UN peacekeepers deploying in the
city, and the requirements for this to happen. Another such mission is
scheduled for a week later to Kananga, the capital of Kasai Occidental
province, to assess locations and requirements for possible troop
deployment there, according to humanitarian sources in the DRC.
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