voa标准英语2008年-UN Special Envoy Arrives in Democratic Republic
时间：2018-12-08 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2008年(十一月)
Former Nigerian President and UN special envoy to Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Olusegun Obasanjo (file photo)
United Nations officials said Special Envoy Olusegun Obasanjo would meet in Kinshasa with Congolese President Joseph Kabila and representatives of the five member nations of the U.N. Security Council. He then is to travel to North Kivu province to meet with rebel leader Laurent Nkunda.
A fragile ceasefire signed earlier this year broke down in August leading to renewed fighting between Nkunda's forces, government troops and several rebel militia's allied 2 with the Kinshasa government. All sides reportedly have committed atrocities 3 and the fighting has displaced one-quarter million people.
The spokesman for the U.N. Mission in Congo, Madnodje Mounoubai says the situation is disturbing.
"For the past three days there have been attacks all over North Kivu, in Rutshuru, in Masisi [north of Goma], he said. "The ceasefire is no longer holding in those areas so we are very worried about the future."
Displaced Congolese, who fled to the southeast of Rutshuru, against the border with Uganda, wait for aid in Ntamugenga, eastern Congo, 24 Nov 2008
U.N. officials Friday confirmed that Nkunda's forces had seized the town of Ishasha near the border with Uganda, causing some 13,000 residents to flee into Uganda.
The U.N. Security Council this week approved a request to send 3,000 additional peacekeepers to Congo. They are to join the 17,000 troops already there, 5,000 of which are deployed 4 in the east at 35 mobile bases. But details have yet to be worked out, leading to calls for the European Union to send forces.
U.N. spokesman Mounoubai notes that before the fighting erupted there already were one million internally displaced people, or IDP's, in the region. He says the latest violence has only worsened the humanitarian 5 tragedy.
"The humanitarian organizations, the U.N. agencies, they have received enough food to be able to assist those additional IDP's," said Mounoubai. "The problem they have on the ground is that there is not enough security for them to be able to send this assistance to the displaced."
He says the largest camp, Kibati, lies in the conflict zone and as a result is being moved to a safer area.
An estimated three million Congolese died during two civil wars in the mid-1990s. A peace agreement several years ago ended most of the violence and brought national elections two years ago. But it failed to end hostilities 6 in parts of eastern Congo.
- Their envoy showed no sign of responding to our proposals.他们的代表对我方的提议毫无回应的迹象。
- The government has not yet appointed an envoy to the area.政府尚未向这一地区派过外交官。
- Britain was allied with the United States many times in history.历史上英国曾多次与美国结盟。
- Allied forces sustained heavy losses in the first few weeks of the campaign.同盟国在最初几周内遭受了巨大的损失。
- They were guilty of the most barbarous and inhuman atrocities. 他们犯有最野蛮、最灭绝人性的残暴罪行。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The enemy's atrocities made one boil with anger. 敌人的暴行令人发指。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
- The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。
- She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
- The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
- Mexico called for an immediate cessation of hostilities. 墨西哥要求立即停止敌对行动。
- All the old hostilities resurfaced when they met again. 他们再次碰面时，过去的种种敌意又都冒了出来。