UN Extends Mandate to Keep Peacekeeping Troops in DR Congo

The United Nations has extended its mandate to station peacekeeping forces in the troubled Democratic Republic of Congo in an effort to protect civilians from the violence waged between government troops and rebels.

According to the new mandate UN forces will remain in the DR Congo for another year and will include the deployment of more than 22,000 soldiers and police as well as observers.

DR Congo has been mired in constant battles between government troops and rebel groups in the eastern region of the country. Much of the violence has been between rebel leader Gen. Laurent Nkunda and his Tutsi minority and government militias.

That violence has left more than a quarter-million civilians homeless as they have been forced to flee from constant battles as well as looting.

The Tutsi community has been involved in several battles with Hutus who fled Rwanda after the 1994 genocide ended and they were forced from power.

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