(YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images)Pregnant women are reflected in a puddle as they stand in line to receive birth kits from a local NGO at a camp for Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Kibati, north of the provincial capital city of Goma, on November 12, 2008. With a “schizophrenic” mandate and a lack of troops and logistics, UN peacekeepers in Democratic Republic of Congo are being accused of powerlessness in the face of conflict, diplomats and analysts say. Despite the presence of 5,800 peacekeepers in Nord-Kivu province, rebels led by Laurent Nkunda have come as close as 15 kilometres (10 miles) to the provincial capital Goma.
