Sentence examples for monuc's from inspiring English sources

MONUC's head, Alan Doss, has asked for a temporary deployment of 2,000 more police and special-forces soldiers to shore up his defences.

Meanwhile, the UN Security Council will again be asked to strengthen MONUC's mandate so that it can suppress all illegal armed groups in the area, should talks fail again.

Despite the common knowledge that Ntaganda – a wanted accused war criminal – was acting as de facto deputy commander for Congolese forces during Kimia II, Monuc's command hid behind transparently false Congolese government assurances that Ntaganda was not involved.

The UN Security Council is set to debate and renew MONUC's mandate in the coming weeks.

The UN peacekeeping force in Congo (MONUC), the world's largest, is supposed to be disarming these rebels, but has failed to neutralise them.Indeed, since MONUC was first deployed to Congo in 1999, it has consistently failed to keep anyone in the region safe.

Petronille Vaweka, a member of the region's fledgling transitional government, said, "To win the people's confidence, Monuc has a lot of work to do," using the French acronym for the United Nations mission in Congo.

Furaha's story shows why 10 years into its mission, the Democratic Republic of the Congo's UN peacekeeping force – better known by its French acronym Monuc – is as vital as ever.

In two Congolese cities in 2002 and 2003, UN soldiers watched as hundreds of civilians were murdered outside their bases.In May this year, they sat back as an unsavoury rebel chief seized control of Bukavu, Congo's fourth city, despite the presence of a large and well-armed MONUC garrison on the outskirts of town.

"Is MONUC here to do anything apart from count the bodies?" asked a Congolese witness.MONUC's reputation has been damaged still further by revelations that some peacekeepers have been sexually molesting Congolese children.

[But] there is very little belief that MONUC will do anything .MONUC has already indicated that it probably will not stop a Rwandan invasion.

The UN Observer Mission in Congo (MONUC) moved to consolidate gains and drive for complete withdrawal of all foreign forces.