Militia camps have been dismantled, while cordon and search operations have been reinforced.

At 2pm two police vans were inside the cordon with another van just outside.

A number of officers were stood inside the cordon monitoring the block of flats.

They are also engaged in cordon and search operations and the collection and destruction of weapons.

Joint or parallel MONUC and FARDC operations, including area domination and cordon and search missions, as well as day and night patrols have resulted in an improved security situation in South Kivu.

And as you can see from the visuals, the service was responding and rescuing victims from the incident locations even before the police could cordon off the incident locations and formally confirm it as a terror strike.

Regular joint area domination and cordon and search operations have resulted in the apprehension of some militia elements and the seizure of illegal arms and ammunition, as well as limiting the operational room for manoeuvre of the militia groups.

For these and other reasons, the Agencia Literaria Latinoamericana has lost approximately 20,000 through cancelled publishing projects, with a similar amount outstanding and uncollected by Cuba because of the banking restrictions caused by the financial cordon placed around it.

With a view to protecting the civilian population threatened by FAPC militia members after the murder of a prominent businessman, on 24 February MONUC conducted a cordon and search operation at Ariwara and disarmed 116 FAPC soldiers, collecting some 118 weapons and ammunition.

Such robust military action, in the form of cordon and search operations and the setting up of checkpoints, is aimed at loosening FDLR command over those who may wish to voluntarily turn their weapons in to MONUC and be repatriated to Rwanda.

Some American defense analysts view China s maritime strategy as being clearly aggressive. They point to increasing defense expenditures and the development of missile and submarine technology designed to cordon off the seas extending from China s coast to the first island chain of Taiwan and Japan.

Which means that we are now in a position where we have reduced traffic across this toll cordon with 20 percent, and reduced congestion by enormous numbers, and people aren't even aware that they have changed, and they honestly believe that they have liked this all along.

Separately, on 1 March MONUC conducted a large scale cordon and search operation, carried out with infantry troops from Pakistan, Nepal and South Africa and the use of Indian attack helicopters, with the aim of dismantling an FNI headquarters in Loga (north east of Bunia), in Ituri.

The African Group was encouraged that, since the revision of its mandate, MONUC had established three joint commissions to help the transitional Government with security sector reform, essential legislation and elections, and that it had implemented a more proactive military strategy, including the dismantling of militia camps, cordon and search operations and security zones to protect internally displaced persons and safeguard humanitarian access.