South Africa extends peacekeeping missions
South Africa has extended by a year its peacekeeping troop deployments to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Darfur and along the Ethiopian-Eritrean border, the government announced Tuesday.
The cabinet approved the extension "as part of our commitment to contribute to peace and stability on the continent, and to fulfill our international obligations to the United Nations and the African Union," said a statement issued after Tuesday's fortnightly cabinet meeting in Cape Town.
The deployment of 750 troops to the troubled western Sudanese region of Darfur, 1,264 to the DRC and 10 to the volatile border between Ethiopia and Eritrea were all to have expired within the next three months, government spokesman Themba Maseko said.
The term of 22 South African National Defence Force personnel assisting with military integration and training in the DRC was also extended by a year.
"The meeting further approved the deployment of five SANDF personnel to be part of the UN Political Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) as military observers and staff officers," the statement said.
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