United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or MONUSCO (which is initials of its French name "Mission de l'Organisation des Nations unies pour la stabilisation en République démocratique du Congo") (until 2010 known as United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo or MONUC, ), is a United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) which was established by the United Nations Security Council in resolutions 1279 (1999) and 1291 (2000) 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.