A United Nations peacekeeping mission will assume responsibility on Sunday of providing security to refugees and war-displaced people in eastern Chad and northeastern Central African Republic, dpa quoted the UN as announcing today. The UN mission, with 5,200 military troops and known as MINURCAT, will take over European Union troops posted in the past year at the region between Chad and CAR where tens of thousands have taken refuge from fighting in Sudan's Darfur and Chad. The EU force was to end its mission on Sunday. But troops from Albania, Austria, Croatia, Finland, France, Ireland, Poland and Russia under the departing EU force will remain to serve under the UN mission. Fresh troops from some African and Asian countries will also join the mission.
