Here's the real news: 1,200 people employed to do major road work. Also, an additional 60 people employed as police officers.
Please note that the road work is probably being done manually without major machinery. Also, the condition of the work probably required total reconstruction. That's why you need so many people because the road appears less than 30 miles.
Work and employment is a good thing to see in the Congo.
UN supports deployment of police to help stabilize eastern DR Congo
Hundreds of newly trained national police officers are being deployed to the strife-torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as part of a stabilization plan backed by the United Nations, the world body’s mission there said today.
About 332 Congolese police officers from the Kapalata training centre in Kisangani are being deployed, with the support of the UN mission (MONUC), police and the UN Office for Projects Support (UNOPS), the mission said.
Sixty of these officers will provide security for major road work between the towns of Sake and Masisi, which employs some 1,200 people living along the road.
Road construction was suspended in late August 2008, due to fighting between the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) and the Congolese
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