Leila Zerrougui

Diplomats say France has urged the UN to support the RDF operations but the UN's cautious top representative in Congo-K Leila Zerrougui demurred (AC Vol 59 No 23 Militias flex their muscles)...

Most Western countries – along with Leila Zerrougui the UN's top representative in the country – hailed the symbolically important peaceful transfer of power and downplayed the electoral fraud...

Meanwhile the UN's top official in Congo Leila Zerrougui told the UN Security Council on 11 January that the elections had 'taken place correctly despite technical logistical and security problems'...

Monusco chief representative Leila Zerrougui instructed her staff to stay away from polling stations on election day and did not protest CENI's decision just days before the election to cancel polls in the opposition strongholds of Beni and Butembo on the pretext of an Ebola and security crisis...

The leader of the United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission (Monusco) Leila Zerrougui has endorsed the government's efforts to hold credible elections despite multiple concerns about electronic voting machines and the exclusion on dubious legal grounds of major opposition candidates notably former Katanga province governor Moïse Katumbi and former Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba (AC Vol 59 No 20 Hanging on a click factor)...

Diplomats see Gressly as an effective anchor for the beleaguered mission which has only just welcomed its new Special Representative Leila Zerrougui an Algerian...

Yet a few days later Meece urged Ntaganda’s men to rejoin the FARDC while his deputy Leila Zerrougui urged the government to punish the defectors in Fizi and Baraka districts of South Kivu accusing them of having arrested the local prosecutor and freed criminals from gaol...

The UN deputy chief in Congo Leila Zerrougui insists that Monusco had no mandate to certify or supervise the voting and the count...