04/01/2014
Record numbers of U.N. peacekeepers can't stop Africa violence
An surveillance drone belonging to the UN's MONUSCO peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo waits to take off during its official launching ceremony at the airport in the northeastern city of Goma, capital of strife-torn North Kivu province, on December 3, 2013. (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images) NAIROBI mdash; The United Nations has dispatched a record number of peacekeepers in Africa in recent years, deploying soldiers to trouble spots such as the Central African Republic and South Sudan. Yet the #8220;blue helmets#8221; and thousands of other soldiers sent by African regional groups have failed to prevent fresh spasms of violence. The peacekeeping forces have cost billions of...
