The number of UN peacekeepers on the ground in the DRC has reached nearly 500, UN spokesman, Fred Eckhard said on Friday. He said that the remainder of the 260-strong Senegalese guard unit had arrived in government-held Kananga, in Kasai Occidental, one of the four sectoral headquarters for the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUC). The first half of the unit arrived earlier last week. Meanwhile, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the DRC, Kamel Morjane, was in Lusaka, Zambia, on Friday to attend a meeting of the Political Committee of the signatories of the Lusaka ceasefire agreement, Eckhard added.
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