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There's been a flurry of coverage on the crisis in DRC this week (see especially Melanie Gouby's excellent Le Figaro piece on M23's motives. Lots of people are writing about M23, but Gouby actually went to Kavumu to talk to them.). One analysis that seems to have escaped much media attention was the Monday release of an open letter to the UN Security Council from International Crisis Group President and CEO Louise Arbour on the status of Congo's UN peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO. The mission is up for renewal, and Arbour raises several serious concerns about the mission's status, its ability to protect civilians, and its neutrality:
MONUSCO has lost credibility on several fronts and urgently needs to reorient its efforts.
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