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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Paul Lorgerie

Top U.N. official tours east Congo as peacekeeping mission struggles

((This March 1 story has been corrected to change the reference from ceasefire deal to ceasefire process in paragraph 6))

BUSHAGARA CAMP, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - The United Nations' top official in Democratic Republic of Congo has sought to rally local support for the agency's troubled peacekeeping mission to the country, touring its conflict-hit eastern provinces for the first time in months.

Bintou Keïta arrived ahead of a planned visit this month by members of the U.N. Security Council and amid sharply deteriorating public support for the mission, known as MONUSCO, and sporadic violent attacks against its peacekeepers.

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