UN troops unlikely to pull out from Congo

(Deutsche Welle)  Next month, France is due to present a draft of a new resolution on the UN mandate for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to the UN Security Council. 

Many observers are already asking how the recent violence in Mbandaka in the northwestern province of Equateur, where rebels seized an airport and killed 13 people, will affect the future of the UN's involvement. With more than 20,000 troops, the UN mission (MONUC) is the largest and most expensive on the planet...