page_title: MONUSCO
section_title: Command staff
hierarchical_section_title: MONUSCO / Organization / Staff and forces / Command staff
caption_attribution_description: English: MONUSCO flight reconnaissance
context_page_description: The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or MONUSCO, an acronym based on its French name, is a United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo which was established by the United Nations Security Council in resolutions 1279 and 1291 of the United Nations Security Council to monitor the peace process of the Second Congo War, though much of its focus subsequently turned to the Ituri conflict, the Kivu conflict and the Dongo conflict. The mission was known as the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo or MONUC, an acronym of its French name Mission de l'Organisation des Nations Unies en République démocratique du Congo, until 2010.
context_section_description: MONUSCO command staff As of February 2015:
  Special Representative of the Secretary-General since January 2018: Leila Zerrougi (Algeria)
  2015-17: Maman Sambo Sidikou ( Niger)
  2013–15: Martin Kobler ( Germany)
  2010–13: Roger A. Meece ( United States)
  2007–10: Alan Doss ( United Kingdom)
  2003–07: William L. Swing ( United States)
  2001–03: Amos Namanga Ngongi ( Cameroon)
  1999–2001: Kamel Morjane ( Tunisia)
  Deputy Special Representatives of the Secretary-General: Abdallah Wafy ( Niger)
  Deputy Special Representatives of the Secretary-General: Kim Bolduc ( Canada)
  Force Commander: Lieutenant General Derrick Mgwebi ( South Africa)
  Police Commissioner: Général Pascal Champion ( France)
caption: Ukraine aviation unit flight reconnaissance mission over North Kivu.
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