The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) announced on Wednesday that 60 Moroccan peacekeepers are finally on their way home from the DRC. The mission also posted a photo of the Moroccan peacekeepers next to a UN flight that will repatriate them home. In June, MONUSCO honored the Moroccan peacekeepers in the DRC with a ceremony in Kananga. “A battalion forming the Moroccan contingent deployed in DRC, under the command of Colonel Zakaria Sahili, was decorated by Lieutenant General Elias Rodriguez Martins Filho, Commander of the MONUSCO Forces,” the Moroccan embassy in DRC then said. The Moroccan peacekeepers received the medals of merit in recognition of their “commendable services” in the UN mission in the DRC.

Source: The North Africa Journal August 06, 2020 15:22 UTC