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Written by Patrick Gathara
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Friday, 27 November 2009 |
MONUC , the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo,
the largest and most expensive UN mission in the world, has just marked
its 10th anniversary. Established in November 1999, and despite
maintaining, at present, close to 20,000 troops in the Congo at a cost
of $1.4 billion a year, it has achieved little more than a bad name.
Next
year the DRC, too, commemorates an anniversary: its Golden Jubilee. 50
years of independence, during which the country has singularly
distinguished itself for the misery it imposes on its citizenry.
President Joseph Kabila has asked that MUNOC present him with a
withdrawal plan as a present. What is not clear is whether he intends
to give the long-suffering Congolese people a respite from his and his
fellow butchers-in-arms' warmongering.
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Patrick Gathara |
| About the author: |
| Patrick Gathara is a Kenyan cartoonist and the Secretary General of Katuni, the East African Association of Cartoonists. He writes/ draws regularly on political matters and is Politics and Society Executive Editor at KenyaImagine.
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