Goma, 04 September 2010 - Armed men attacked an aircraft with 4 members of the International Medical Corps (IMC), all American nationals at about 10 a.m. on September, 1. The aicraft had just touched ground on the Kilambo airstrip, 15 km NW of Walikale. The 3rd Indian Batallion reacted immediately on appraisal by deploying a Rapid reaction team from its operational base in Walikale. This resulted in the extraction of 4 humanitarian operators and 2 crew members.
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Kinshasa, 3 September 2010 – A moving ceremony was held in the headquarters of the UN Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) to salute the three fallen Indian Peacekeepers in Kirumba, North Kivu on 18 August. The Special Representative, Mr. Roger Meece; the Force Commander, Lieutenant General Chander Prakash; the UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Missions, Atul Khare, several Congolese officials and members of the diplomatic corps attended were presents.
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Bukavu, 14 August 2010 - The United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative (SRSG) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Roger Meece, arrived in the town of Bukavu, the provincial capital of South Kivu province, on August 12, for a two-day visit. (Photo caption: SRSG Meece visits the Saio camp near Bukavu, accompanied by General Masunzu, Commander of the FARDC 10th Military Region, Noel Craven, head of IOM in Bukavu, and South Kivu Governor Marcellin Cisambo. Photo: MONUSCO/Hugo de Vries)
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Goma, 13 August 2010 - Ending his nearly 72-hour visit to North Kivu, the new Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Roger Meece, left the provincial capital, Goma, in the early afternoon of August 12, heading to Bukavu, in the neighboring South Kivu province. While still in Goma, SRSG Meece met with the local press for over half an hour, at the Mission’s headquarters in Goma, after spending two hours visiting internally displaced persons (IDP’s) at Nyanzale in Rutchuru territory.
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Bandundu, 13 August 2010 - Within the framework of capacity-building for DRC’s judiciary institution, Government Departments for Home Affairs, Justice, and Human Rights, backed by MONUSCO/Rule of Law section, held a series of trainings for Inspectors and Judiciary Police Officers (IPJ and OPJ). The trainings successively took place in Kasai Oriental, Kasai Occidental, Maniema and Bandundu provinces.
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