The initial phase of the United Nations intervention brigade arrived in eastern Congo today, following an United Nations Security Council resolution in March that called for a peacekeeping force.
The resolution renewed the mandate of the peacekeeping mission in Congo, whilst also establishing a special intervention brigade that had an aggressive mandate to both fight armed groups and protect civilians.
Congo's prime minister, Augustin Matata Ponyo, welcomed the intervention Brigade, stating,
"With the first Tanzanian troops landing, a new dynamic will emerge in the east. Security problems cannot be solved in one day"