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The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been off the U.N.’s watch list since March 2008 when the 47-member U.N. Human Rights Council buckled under pressure from a number of states. Egypt, other Arab and African states, and Russia were among...

]]> The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been off the U.N.’s watch list since March 2008 when the 47-member U.N. Human Rights Council buckled under pressure from a number of states.

Egypt, other Arab and African states, and Russia were among those who spearheaded the move to fire the expert appointed to keep an eye on Congo’s human rights situation.

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