MONUSCO’s New Mandate: Protecting Civilians While Preparing for Transition
By Daniel Levine-Spound and Samuli Harju On December 18, 2020, the UN Security Council adopted resolution 2556 and renewed the mandate of the UN Peacekeeping Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO). The new mandate was negotiated in the context of increasingly significant political tensions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) alongside…