UN Preparing for Crisis in DRC

The United Nations is making contingency plans to respond to a sudden increase in humanitarian needs should the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s political situation turn violent.   The U.N. has been warning for several months that without a serious national political dialogue, tensions in the DRC could deteriorate into a severe and possibly violent crisis. The U.N. has 20,000 peacekeepers in the country’s volatile east and has been conducting military contingency planning to...

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