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UN military officers start deployment

    NAIROBI
    The first 10 UN Military Liaison Officers (MLOs) were deployed to regional capitals on Monday after completing a three-day induction course in Nairobi, the UN Regional Humanitarian Advisor's Office told IRIN on Tuesday. Ten more MLOs are scheduled to be deployed over the course of this week. Some 90 MLOs are expected to be attached to the UN Observer Mission in the DRC (MONUC) - as approved by the UN Security Council last month - to support the implementation the Lusaka ceasefire agreement. The MLOs deployed on Monday were posted to Kinshasa, Windhoek, Kampala, Kigali and Harare, and 10 others will leave this week for Bujumbura, Lusaka and Kinshasa. In addition, three officers from the mission planning service of the UN's Department of Peacekeeping Operations are scheduled to travel this week to Lusaka and Kinshasa, the Office said.

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