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“All the Mission’s leadership are here. This means we attach great importance to our partnership with DRC,” declared the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in the DRC and Chief of MONUSCO, Bintou…

MONUSCO has facilitated reconciliation between two communities in Irumu territory in Ituri province. On 10 August 2021, the Hema and Bira communities signed an act of commitment on community rapprochement for peaceful…

In North Kivu, MONUSCO and its partners, including the Congolese government, last week closed the stabilization projects in the Bwito chiefdom in Rutshuru territory. The closing ceremony coincided with the inauguration of the…

Beni courthouse located in the city center, not far from the town hall, is built near a market and was not fenced. This position has often been the direct cause of numerous incidents, the most frequent of which are jail…

MONUSCO (UNPOL) Police Officers’ team specialized in gender-based sexual violence sensitized, on July 27, 55 students at Don Bosco Ngangi Institute located in Karisimbi commune, Goma. The objective of the awareness session…

From July 9 to 23, 2021, MONUSCO trained 652 officers and troops of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) as well as members of the Congolese National Police (PNC), including one woman, on military…

As part of its Community Violence Reduction (CVR) projects, MONUSCO has handed over to local authorities two agricultural feeder roads and three bridges located in the villqge groupings of Zadu and Baviba, 60 kilometers from…

MONUSCO and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), in collaboration with the High Military Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo, organised a workshop from 14 to 15 July 2021 in Bunia to take stock of the…

To fight the consumption and trafficking of illicit substances in the central prison of Makala, in Kinshasa, the field team of MONUSCO Correction Administration Support Unit organized two awareness-raising sessions for five…

The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Bintou Keita, paid a working visit to South Kivu from June 30 to July 2. During this visit which took her to the…

Inmates in Uvira central prison, South Kivu province now have a new source of combustible energy: biogas. With MONUSCO funding, a pilot biogas project was inaugurated in this prison last May. On top of this project, the…

With funding from MONUSCO to the tune of $132,000, one hundred and four solar panels have been installed in Bunia, Ituri, to fight criminality in this town where acts of burglary and other criminal acts are often reported…