police, 12 international civilians, and 30 local civilians. Staff and forces On 31 October 2007 MONUC had a total of 18,407 uniformed personnel, including 16,661 troops, 735 military observers, 1,011 police, who were supported by 931 international civilian personnel, 2,062 local civilian staff and 585 United Nations Volunteers. As of June 2022, major troop contributors, in order of total number of military personnel are Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, South Africa, Nepal, Indonesia, and Morocco (nearly 10,000). On 20 November 2008, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to reinforce MONUC with 3,085 more peacekeepers to deal with trouble in the 2008 Nord-Kivu conflict. They voted after 44 organizations, led by the French Foreign Ministry, petitioned the council to send reinforcements to stabilize the region. MONUSCO forces included 19,084 uniformed personnel, out of which 16,998 were military personnel, 743 were military observers and 1,343 were police (including formed units). In addition the forces included 983 international civilian personnel, 2,828 local civilian staff and 600 UN volunteers. Command staff MONUSCO command staff : In January 2021, Bintou Keita was appointed to lead MONUSCO and to be the UN Secretary General's Special Representative to the DRC. 2018–21: Leila Zerrougi 2015–17: Maman Sambo Sidikou () 2013–15: Martin Kobler () 2010–13: Roger A. Meece () 2007–10: Alan Doss () 2003–07: William L. Swing () 2001–03: Amos Namanga Ngongi () 1999–2001: Kamel Morjane () Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Abdallah Wafy () Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Kim Bolduc () Force Commander: Lieutenant General Derrick Mgwebi () Police Commissioner: Général Pascal Champion () Contributing countries , the total number of personnel in the mission is 14,789: Civilians International civilian employees and volunteers, and DRC nationals: 2,636 International Employees: 816 United Nations Volunteers: 482 DRC nationals: 1,338 Controversies In 2007 and 2008, in several news and TV reports the BBC published own evidence about Pakistani MONUC peacekeepers in Mongbwalu had entered in a gold-for-guns trading relationship with Nationalist and Integrationist Front (FNI) militia leaders, eventually drawing Congolese army officers and Indian traders from Kenya into the deal. Following its own investigations, the UN concluded that there was no involvement of Pakistani peacekeeper in any such trade relationship. Namely Human Rights Watch harshly criticized the UN for the way it handled the investigation, providing detailed information from several UN documents, arguing that serious allegations of wrongdoing by Pakistani peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo were ignored,