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UN Peacekeeping: 'We need to improve our ability to protect civilians'

Focus on Africa

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The head of UN peacekeeping, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, says the organisation has already started implementing recommendations of a high-level report that showed the UN's flag no longer offer "natural protection" to its peacekeeping force. In an interview with the Âé¶¹Éç's Emmanuel Igunza, he acknowledged that they needed to improve the way they operate in order to deal with the violence that is occurring as a result of the continued uncertainty. (Image: People look on as protesters burn tyres during a demonstration calling for the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to step down in Kinshasa. Credit: Getty Images)

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