The UN Secretary-General appointed on Friday, 17 May 2013, Lieutenant General Carlos Alberto Dos Santos Cruz of Brazil as the new Force Commander of the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. General Dos Santos Cruz is replacing General Chander Prakash of India, who left in March at the end of his mission. General Dos Santos Cruz arrives in the DRC with a rich experience from many years at the service of his country, and also with peacekeeping as the Force Commander of MINUSTAH, the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti, between 2007 and 2009.
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Goma, 15 May 2013 - The 135 strong Indian Formed Police Unit-2 (FPU) was honored with the United Nations Peacekeeping medal in appreciation for their service in Goma. The Medal Parade held at the FPU camp in Goma on 15 May 2013, was attended by the Deputy Police Commissioner of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), Jacques Desilets, as well as other senior MONUSCO officials and high ranking National Congolese Police (PNC) authorities. The Indian FPU has been serving in the Democratic Republic of Congo since November 2005.
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Goma, 14 May 2013 – A delegation of 15 ambassadors, members of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union, arrived on official mission in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on 13 May 2013. The delegation came to enquire about the security situation and the imminent deployment of the new Intervention Brigade in North Kivu province.
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Bunia, 12 May 2013 – Eighty-four police officers, including two women, underwent five weeks of training in the Ituri district, province Orientale, on gender-based sexual violence.
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10 May 2013 – A contingent of Tanzanian soldiers arrived in the eastern city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today as part of the intervention brigade authorized by the United Nations to help neutralize armed groups in this volatile part of the country.
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