DRC: peacekeepers can leave, says Kabila
12.02.2004
Security in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is improving so fast that United Nations troops can leave this year, President Joseph Kabila has said. Some 10,000 UN troops are in the DRC to monitor a peace deal which ended almost five years of war. Despite the peace deal, parts of eastern DRC in particular remain dangerous with many different armed groups killing, raping and looting.