United Nations Mission in Liberia MISSION BRIEF

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United Nations Mission in Liberia MISSION
BRIEF
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Bushrod Ablaze
July 2003 Monrovia in flames
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Child Soldier
Battle for Monrovia June-August 2003
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KEY DATES

• 1 August Security Council Resolution 1497
  authorizes multinational force and future UN
  stabilization force
• 4 August Deployment of ECOMIL vanguard force
• 11 August Charles Taylor hands over presidency
  to Moses Blah

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• 18 August Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed
  in Accra, Ghana
• 19 September Security Council Resolution 1509
  establishes UN Mission in Liberia
• 1 October Day One of UNMIL, ECOMIL troops
  rehatted as UN peacekeepers
• 14 October National Transitional Government of
  Liberia (NTGL) takes office and National
  Transitional Legislative Assembly (NTGA) sworn in

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UNMIL Day One - 1 October 2003
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Inauguration of NTGL14 October 2003
Chairman Bryant and former President Blah
Presidents Kufuor and Obasanjo with SRSG Klein
Chairman Bryant takes oath of office
Vice Chairman Wesley Johnson takes oath
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UNMIL LEADERSHIP
Souren Seraydarian Deputy Special Representative
Jacques Paul Klein Special Representative
of the Secretary-General and Coordinator of UN
Operations in Liberia
Abou Moussa Deputy Special Representative
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UNMIL LEADERSHIP
Savitri Butchey Director of Administration
Lt. Gen. Daniel I. Opande Force
Commander
Mark A. Kroeker Police Commissioner
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UN Family in Liberia
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UNMIL MANDATE Operating under Chapter VII

• SUPPORT
• Ceasefire Agreement
• Humanitarian Assistance/Human Rights
• Support for Security Reform
• PROTECT
• United Nations Staff
• Facilities
• Civilians

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UNMIL Mandate Implementation

• Consists of eight goals
• Peace and security
• Disarmament and Demobilization
• Rehabilitation and Reintegration of combatants
• Establish rule of law, including judiciary and
  corrections
• Establish safeguards for human rights
• Restoration of state authority
• Provision of factual information through public
  media campaigns
• Coordination of UN agencies for humanitarian
  assistance

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PEACE AND SECURITY UNMIL FORCE
Nigerian Contingent
Ghanaian Contingent
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LURD combatants
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Ex-Armed Forces of Liberia soldiers
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MODEL checkpoint
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Current Strength
Military Forces
15,000
Civilian Staff
- Authorized
14,640
14,131
- Current
768
13,841
607
215
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389 Plus 367 Contracts pending
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400
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SECTOR TROOPS
FHQ SO
MILOBS
TOTAL
International
National
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Troop contributing countries
Bangladesh Benin Bolivia Brazil China Croatia Czec
h Rep. Denmark Ecuador El Salvador Egypt Ethiopia
Finland France Gambia Ghana
Guinea Bissau Indonesia Ireland Jordan Kenya Korea
Malawi Malaysia Mali Moldova Namibia Nepal Nether
lands Niger Nigeria Pakistan
Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Romania Russia Se
negal Serbia/Montenegro South Africa Sweden Togo U
kraine United Kingdom United States Zambia Total
authorized 15,000 Total in country 14,131
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COMBAT FORCES
FORCE HQ RESERVE 1 Combined Battalion Ireland Me
chanized Sweden Armored SECTOR 1 Nigeria - 2
Infantry Battalions (partly mechanized) West
African Composite - 1 Motorized Battalion SECTOR
2 Pakistan - 2 Infantry Battalions (partly
mechanized) Namibia - 1 Infantry Battalion
(partly mechanized) SECTOR 3 Bangladesh 3
Infantry Battalions (partly mechanized) SECTOR
4 Ethiopia 2 Motorized Battalions Partly
mechanized 2 motor 2 mechanized companies
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SUPPORT UNITS
FORCE HQ Jordan - Level Three Hospital Philippin
es - Headquarters Company Bangladesh -
Engineering Company Ukraine - Aviation
Unit Nepal - Military Police Company Pakistan
- Road Airfield Maintenance Company Peoples
Republic of China - Transportation
Company SECTOR 1 Pakistan - Engineering
Company SECTOR 2 Pakistan - Level Two Hospital
Engineering Company SECTOR
3 Bangladesh - Level Two Hospital
Engineering Company SECTOR 4 Peoples
Republic of China - Level Two Hospital
Engineering Company
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UNMIL PEACEKEEPER DEPLOYMENTS
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284 Combat Vehicles 14 Helicopter Gunships
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Disarmament, Demobilization, Rehabilitation and
Reintegration (DDRR)

• DDRR begun in December 2003 at Camp Schieffelin
  for former Government of Liberia (ex-GoL)
  combatants
• Combatants disarmed 13,192
• Weapons collected 8,679
• Ammunition collected 2,018,669

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DDRR Program launch

• Special Representative of the Secretary General
  Jacques Paul Klein destroys weapons at ceremonial
  launch of DDRR program on 1 December 2003
• NTGL Chairman Gyude Bryant addresses opening of
  Camp Schieffelin DDRR site on 7 December 2003

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Disarmament Camp Schieffelin December 2003
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Nationwide information campaign to educate
combatants and communities on DDRR
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Voinjama Gen. Sheriff Cobra (LURD), Gen. Varmuya
Sheriff (ex-GOL), Gen. William Bearlar (MODEL)
and Gen. Patrick Bowah (LURD) on UNMIL DDRR
information campaign
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Resumption of DDRR15 April 2004

• 4 cantonment and 4 disarmament sites in Gbarnga,
  Tubmanburg, Monrovia, and Buchanan
• 5 more cantonment sites to be completed for LURD,
  MODEL, ex-GOL

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Disarmament and Demobilization 15 April 2004
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Registration and Encampment 15 April 2004
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DESTROYED
COLLECTED
8,252 to restart 15 June
15,343
Weapons
3,805,118
3,805,118
Ammo (small arms)
11,490
11,490
Ammo (explosives)
34,328 ex-combatants disarmed
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Rehabilitation and Reintegration International
Contributions
US Agency for International Development

• Liberia Community Infrastructure Program
• 27.9 million, 3 years
• Target 10,000 ex-combatants and 10,000 others

• Women and Children Rehabilitation program
• 15 million, 3 years
• Target 10,000 women and children

• Youth Reintegration Training and Education for
  Peace Program (YRTEP) Vocational, Apprenticeship,
  Education
• 5 million, 2 years
• Target 5 million young people

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Rehabilitation and Reintegration Programmes

• DDRR Trust Fund
• 28 RR proposals for trades training programmes
• for 35,200 ex-combatants
• UNICEF-7000 child ex-combatants into community
• education programmes
• Formal education programmes in Monrovia and in
  counties
• being reviewed and assessed for intake of
  ex-combatants
• in partnership with the Ministry of Education

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Rule of Law

• Civilian Police
• Judiciary
• Corrections
• Human Rights

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UNMIL CIVILIAN POLICE
Current strength 750 out of an authorized
strength of 1,115, including 240 members of the
Formed Police Units
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UNMIL CIVILIAN POLICE Contributing Countries

• Bangladesh
• Bosnia-Herzegovina
• China
• Czech Rep.
• Fiji
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Jordan (FPU)
• Malawi
• Namibia
• Nepal (FPU)
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Norway
• Pakistan

• Philippines
• Poland
• Russia
• Samoa
• Senegal
• Serbia-Montenegro
• Sri Lanka
• Sweden
• Turkey
• Ukraine
• Uruguay
• United States
• Yemen
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Total authorized 1,115 Total in country 725
(including 10 Corrections officers)
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CIVPOL Tasks

• Monitoring and mentoring the Liberian National
  Police (LNP)
• Co-locating with LNP personnel
• Restructuring Police Sector
• Establishing a new Police Service

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CIVPOL Training

• Interim police training, while planning proceeds
  for a restructured national police service
• Jordanian Formed Police Unit demonstrating riot
  control techniques
• 5 May - Recruitment campaign for new police
  service starts

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Judiciary

• Assess judicial system
• Train judges, prosecutors and lawyers
• Re-establish courts
• Co-location of UNMIL judicial advisors in the
  courts/Ministry of Justice
• Monitoring of criminal/civil trials

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Corrections

• Recruit and train staff for the Liberian
  Correctional System
• Review and revise penal legislation
• Improve policies and procedures
• to reflect international guidelines
• and human rights standards
• Reform organizational structure
• Build a long-range corrections development plan
  with the assistance of key international and
  national stakeholders

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Human Rights and Protection

• Established/Assist
• Independent Human
• Rights Commission
• Truth and Reconciliation Commission
• Protect
• Vulnerable Groups
• Children and Women

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Restoration of State Authority

• Strategies for return of civil administration,
  county officials, district officers and
  traditional chiefs around the country
• Committees to resolve disputes at local level
  arising from occupation or possession of
  properties

Mayoress of Ganta
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Provision of factual information through public
media campaigns

• 24-hour FM radio capability established
• Nationwide DDRR information campaign
• Public education on Mission mandate, security and
  law enforcement awareness and humanitarian
  assistance
• Voter education
• Local media capacity-building

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UNMIL Radio 91.5FM

• Broadcasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week
• News and information on the peace process
• Sensitization of public opinion on DDRR
• Voter education on forthcoming elections
• Signal currently has the farthest reach of any
  radio station in Liberia
• Coverage will be nationwide

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Media Development

• Free media environment established
• 25 newspapers publishing
• 8 FM radio stations
• Community radio
• 2 Monrovia-based television stations

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Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance

• Expansion of humanitarian relief activities by UN
  agencies and non-governmental organizations
• Relief assistance to refugees, IDPs and host
  communities
• More than 50 joint assessment missions by UN
  agencies and NGOs to locations all over Liberia
• WFP feeds 600,000 persons per day in Liberia
• 316,000 Internally Displaced Persons
• 284,000 Vulnerable Groups

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• Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and refugees
  beginning to return home
• 17,600 returnees have come back from Sierra
  Leone, Guinea, Côte dIvoire and Ghana since
  November 2003

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Liberia Demographic Statistics(estimated)

• Population 3.3 million
• Population under age of 15 years - 44
• Ethnic- 95 Indigenous African (16 Ethnic Groups)
• 5 Americo-Liberians
• Religion
• Traditional Animist
• Christian
• Muslim
• Literacy Rate (Average) 37
• Men 50
• Women 24

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Health Statistics(estimated)

• Life Expectancy - 48 years
• Infant Mortality - 117 per 1000 live births
• HIV/AIDS
• Prevalence Rate - 8.2
• Population with access to
• acceptable standards
• Sanitation - 40
• Drinking water 26
• Estimated war-related deaths
• since 1989 250,000
• (50 civilian)

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Economic Statistics(estimated)

• Unemployment - 85
• Population below Poverty line - 75
• Literacy - 37
• National Debt - 2.8 billion
• Arrears 2.8 billion
• (650 mil. - World Bank, 400 mil.- IMF)

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Refugee and IDP Statistics

• Internally Displaced Persons 500,000 (estimated)
• 230,000 in the camps (UNHCR)
• Refugees 57,000 (in Liberia)
• 40,000 S. Leoneans
• 17,000 Ivorians
• Liberian Refugees - 354,230 (UNHCR)
• Ghana - 42,388
• Sierra Leone - 67,162
• Cote dIvoire - 67,149
• Gambia - 699
• Guinea - 170,832
• Nigeria - 6,000

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Returning refugees
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Reconstruction

• Liberia Reconstruction Conference 5-6 February 04
• Initiated by UNMIL to address Liberias short to
  medium-term reconstruction and development needs
• US520 million pledged

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Back to School
Back to School campaign launched by UNICEF
providing basic equipment and supplies
including 7,275 School-in-a-box kits for

• 622,000 children
• 20,000 teachers
• 3,700 schools
• Since June 2003 over 1.24 million children under
  15 years of age immunized against measles

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Rehabilitation of infrastructure

• UNMIL
• Quick-Impact Projects
• 97 projects undertaken,
• 30 completed totalling over US1 million
• Addressing emergency needs in rehabilitation of
  infrastructure, building of basic institutions
  and functioning of public services and utilities

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Recovery

• Life returns to normal
• Children attend newly opened schools
• Hospitals and clinics are operating
• Economic activity is resuming
• Electricity and water supply has been restored to
  parts of Monrovia

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UNMILBringing Hope for Tomorrow