Sentence examples for peacekeepers help from inspiring English sources

Many pointed out that the fighting had subsided largely because the country was effectively partitioned, with the peacekeepers' help, into Christian and Muslim regions.

In 2003 its peacekeepers helped calm Burundi.

Still, the SPLA and the effective positioning of the U.N. peacekeepers helped halt them from overrunning Pibor.

Although Ethiopian troops appear to have withdrawn from their perimeter positions at another base, civilians said the peacekeepers helped evacuate civilian casualties and, on at least a few occasions, returned fire when fighters targeted the camp.

Then came the United Nations-backed military offensive, also intended to sweep away rebels, in which the peacekeepers helped plan the maneuvers, resupply Congolese soldiers and transport them to battle zones.

Over the weekend, African Union peacekeepers helping to bolster Somalia's weak transitional government claimed to have taken a "major step forward" by locating and cutting off an extensive trench system used by Islamist insurgents to funnel "fighters and ammunition in and out of government-held districts".

Last year its peacekeepers helped Congo's ramshackle army defeat a rebellion widely thought to be backed by the governments of neighbouring Rwanda and Uganda that had hamstrung Mr Kabila for almost a decade.Mindful of rising doubts about him in the West, Mr Kabila may seek friends elsewhere.

In Haiti, U.N. peacekeepers helped in the recovery following the 2010 earthquake by restoring a secure and stable environment and by facilitating a legitimate election, the results of which are soon to be officially released.

In a new book, The Embassy: A Story of War and Diplomacy, Dante Paradiso depicts in graphic detail the attempts of an embassy team, aid workers and peacekeepers to help stave off catastrophe in Liberia as the state, ruled by the infamous Charles Taylor, he of "blood diamond" lore, collapses around them. .

The African Union promised to send 8,000 peacekeepers to help.

He also assumed that allies would send peacekeepers to help out.