See articleArmed forces from the Democratic Republic of Congo, backed by UN personnel, secured their biggest success against rebels from the M23, a group thought to be backed by Rwanda, by pushing them back from positions around Goma, a city near the Congo-Rwanda border.
Air Force aircraft returned to the United States, and personnel secured various facilities at the island's base.
A year later in Sierra Leone, a joint SAS-SBS task force secured British Army personnel taken hostage by a gang of violent extremists.
The final preparations have reportedly been made, including the deployment of 1,200 security personnel to secure the island.
Reuters reported this week that Singaporean police, including its renowned Gurkha Contingent ― an elite force of Nepali soldiers armed with assault rifles and traditional curved knives called khukri ― would support U.S. and North Korean security personnel to secure the three hotels and nearby roads. .
Mr. Kabila is "busy working with our personnel to secure the town," Mr. Mende said Sunday night.
Space for Giants, the beneficiary of The Independent's Christmas Campaign, provides training to law enforcement personnel to secure convictions against those involved in the illegal ivory trade.
In an interview, Abkhazia's president, Sergei Bagapsh, said 500 Russian border guards — not Defense Ministry troops — would perform joint patrols alongside 300 Abkhazians until Abkhazia could train enough personnel to secure the 60-mile border.
It announced that in 1986, the Bofors unit of Nobel Industries Sweden AB, the largest arms manufacturer in Sweden, had agreed to pay kickbacks to senior Indian officials and defense personnel to secure a contract for field guns, and had already paid a total of nearly $5 million into an account in Switzerland.
As Australia could not spare enough personnel to secure and operate the merchant ship, and Eleonora Woermann was too slow to keep pace with the battlecruiser, the German crew were taken aboard and the ship was sunk.
