🚨✍️🇮🇷🇵🇰 ~ The re-start of ghost-wars between Pakistan and Iran?

In 2023, Baloch nationalist groups intensified assaults on Pakistani security forces, triggering a corresponding escalation in attacks by Sunni Jihadist groups on Iranian security forces in the Balochistan province.

The likes of #BLA & #BRAS finds shelter in Iranian Balochistan meanwhile the Sunni Jihadist groups find shelter in Pakistan’s Balochistan province.

Remember, Sunni Jihadists and Nationalist Baloch groups routinely clash with each other in both provinces.

The likes of Jaish & Furqan groups accuse #BRA, #BLA & #BLF of kidnapping their fighters and handing over to #IRGC which has resulted in fierce clashes between the two over the years.

Famous #IRGC commanders such as Soleimani have threatened Pakistan before of surgical strikes when Sunni Baloch insurgency used to be in its prime, though the situation never became too volatile between two neighbouring countries except harsh statements.

🇺🇳🇨🇩 The UN prepares the early departure from DRC

The UN Security Council is expected to launch on Tuesday an early but gradual withdrawal of peacekeepers from the DR Congo from the end of 2023, as requested by Kinshasa.

Despite this situation in the east, the Congolese government has been calling for months for an "accelerated" withdrawal of Blue helmets, from the end of 2023 and not the end of 2024. It considers the UN force ineffective in protecting civilians against armed groups and militias that have been raging for three decades in eastern DRC.

Several members of the Council, notably the United States, have expressed doubts in recent months about the fact that the Congolese forces are ready to replace MONUSCO to ensure the security of the population.

From May 2024, MONUSCO will only be present in North Kivu and Ituri. From July 1, its workforce will be reduced by some 2,350 people.

#UN #DRC

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🇨🇩🇺🇳 DR Congo asks U.N. to help with challenging election logistics

Democratic Republic of Congo's government has asked the United Nations to allow its peacekeeping mission to help with the logistics of organising national elections next week.

There have been challenges in the distribution of voting materials in DRC due to a lack of paved roads and conflict in rebel-plagued eastern provinces, where a U.N. peacekeeping mission is deployed.

The mission has already helped deliver voting materials in the eastern provinces of Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu. Its mandate is currently limited to those areas.

But the Kinshasa government asked the U.N. Security Council to allow MONUSCO to extend its logistical support to other provinces.

#DRC

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