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World Service,2 mins

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 麻豆社'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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