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The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and head of UNMIL, Ms Karin Landgren, has confirmed here that an international staff of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) has tested positive of the deadly Ebola virus. The staff member, who works for UNMIL medical team, is currently receiving treatment. According to a press statement issued in Monrovia on Wednesday, SRSG Ms. Karin Landgren said this is the second case of Ebola within the mission. An earlier probable case resulted to the death of a staff member on 25 September 2014... Meanwhile the Mission is extending the robust review...

Liberia to get 15,000 UN troops The United Nations Security Council has unanimously approved a force of up to 15,000 peacekeepers for Liberia. Liberia as a whole remains highly unstable The resolution, proposed by the United States, sets up a UN mission in Liberia to monitor last month's peace agreement between the government and rebels. The main task of the force will be to restore security and to devise a plan to disarm more than 30,000 militiamen, including child soldiers, who are still active in the countryside. In August, Liberia's two main rebel groups signed a power-sharing deal with the...

19 September – The United Nations Security Council today unanimously approved the establishment of a new mission for war-shattered Liberia consisting of up to 15,000 military personnel and up to 1,115 civilian police officers, embarking on a new peacekeeping operation in a country that has been torn by 12 years of conflict. The mission - the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) - is for an initial 12 months, and is set to take over authority from the UN-authorized West African-led multinational force currently keeping the peace on 1 October. UNMIL's mandate includes monitoring implementation of the ceasefire agreed between...

ABIDJAN, 16 Sep 2003 (IRIN) - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Tuesday asked the Security Council to authorize the deployment of 15,000 peacekeeping troops and 875 police officers to war-ravaged Liberia, as part of an enlarged UN mission to the West African country. He said in a report to the Security Council that the mission, to be known as UNMIL, would support the Transitional Government headed by businessman Gyude Bryant, which is due to take office on 14 October, and help it to extend state authority throughout Liberia. Bryant was chosen by a Liberian peace conference last month...