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Article: Congo's political cleanup; In war ruins, U.N. looks to elections.(WORLD)(BRIEFING: AFRICA)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 4, 2003
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Byline: Carter S. Dougherty, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo - The U.N. mission in Congo, already one of the largest of its kind in the world, will get bigger and more complicated before it ends, said the top U.N. official on the scene.
The 3-year-old effort to wind down "Africa's First World War" was never a simple undertaking, but with hostilities at their lowest level in five years, the world organization now is tackling the hardest part: rebuilding a Congolese state that can govern itself after elections in 2005 and closing down the U.N. presence after that.
"We're in a political phase now, in which new ...