Congo-Kinshasa: Despite Improved Security, Situation Remains 'Fragile,' UN Envoys Warn

7 August 2014

Two senior UN officials warned today that although the security situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has vastly improved since this time last year, it remains fragile and the gains are "not irreversible."

Briefing the Security Council this morning, the Secretary-General's Special Representative in the DRC and the head of the UN mission there (MONUSCO), Martin Kobler, recalled that in August 2013, the "M23 [armed militia] was knocking on the gates" of Goma, the main city in the vast country's restive eastern region.

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