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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
... Doss, and the Deputy Special Representative and Co-ordinator of Humanitarian Operations in DRC, Ross Mountain.Mr LeRoy and the United Nations team visited Kirotshe, 40 kilometres to the south of Goma, in Masisi region. MONUC has deployed a mobile base for its peacekeepers there. The security situation in the area remains precarious because, according to people who live there, CNDP...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008
... a million people have been now displaced _ 220,000 of them since August."This is extraordinary," Ross Mountain said. "A million [displaced] in a province of six million."The UN has only 6000 of its 17,000 Congo peacekeepers in the east because of unrest elsewhere. The UN peacekeeping mission in Congo is the largest in the world _ but it called for reinforcements last week.The European...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
On World Food Day, celebrated on october 16th each year, the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in the DRC, Ross Mountain visited "Mona Paradis" farm in Ndjili Brewery, close to Kinshasa. Seen as a pilot project for the preservation of biodiversity, the farm has the largest plantation of Asian fruits like mangosteen in the world.
