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DDR/RR to sensitize LRA combatants through “Helicopter-Messaging”

Goma, May 23, 2013 - The Disarmament, Demobilization, Repatriation, Reintegration, and Resettlement (DD/RRR) division of the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) initiated early this month a new sensitization strategy aimed at persuading the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord Resistance Army (LRA) in the Orientale Province, to surrender to MONUSCO voluntarily.

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UN SG to convene a meeting to review the status of the implementation of the Framework-Agreement

Kinshasa, 23 May 2013 – During his joint visit to Kinshasa on 22 May 2013 with the President of the World Bank Group, the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon said he would convene a meeting in May 2013 to review the progress made thus far by the Framework-Agreement for Peace, Security and Cooperation in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Region.

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UN Secretary-General Arrives in Goma

Kinshasa, 23 May 2013 – The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon arrived this Thursday morning in the Nord Kivu province from Kinshasa as part of a joint mission to the sub-region with the President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim. The purpose of the visit is to back the implementation of the Framework Agreement signed at Addis-Ababa on 24 February by the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Uganda as well as eight other countries in the sub-region.

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UN Secretary-General starts official visit to Kinshasa while M23 and FARDC clash near Goma

Kinshasa, 22 May 2013 - The United Nations Stabilization Mission in DR Congo (MONUSCO) announces that the Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, has started this morning his official visit to the DRC.

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UN Special Envoy to Great Lakes Region meets Congolese Civil Society

Kinshasa, 22 may 2013 – The United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region of Africa, Mary Robinson, met with Congolese civil society representatives in Kinshasa on Tuesday for an exchange of views on the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Region, which was concluded and signed in Addis Ababa on 24 February 2013.