00:00James Swan has officially taken office as the new head of the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo,
00:06Monusco.
00:07The American diplomat was appointed in early March and succeeds Guinea-an official Bintu Keita, who left Kinshasa on 30
00:14November.
00:15Swan previously served as U.S. ambassador to the DRC under President Barack Obama and later headed the UN mission
00:21in Somalia.
00:22He returns to Congo at a particular tense moment with relations between Kinshasa and Kigali poisoned by the conflict in
00:28the east.
00:28One of his first major tasks will be to help relaunch the peace process and put into practice the ceasefire
00:34monitoring and verification mechanisms set out in the Doha agreement.
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