While eastern DRC is facing an upsurge of child rights abuses, MONUSCO's Child Protection Section organised a capacity building workshop for protection focal points, whistleblowers and members of the Joint Technical Working…
On Wednesday 5 April, MONUSCO police launched two training courses for twenty Congolese police officers in the town of Beni. For ten days, two groups of ten police officers will be trained respectively on the direction of…
The operation to mark police and army weapons ended on Thursday, March 30, in the town of Beni. Supported and financed by MONUSCO's Mine Action Service (UNMAS), the operation aimed to identify weapons held by police and…
The consortium of women's organizations in North Kivu launched the "Women Elders and Ambassadors for Peacebuilding" project on Friday, March 17 in Goma, North Kivu. This project consists of setting up, in the 18 neighborhoods…
On Friday, March 10, MONUSCO handed over the Mamove Bridge over the Asefu River to authorities in Beni territory. This bridge, of great economic importance, had been out of use and closed to traffic for two years. It allows…
Forty women survivors of sexual violence were made aware of the empowerment of women on 8 March. The police component (UNPOL) of MONUSCO, which carried out this activity in Bunia in the province of Ituri, on the fringes of…
On the occasion of the celebration of the International Women's Rights Day, the MONUSCO/Goma office, in collaboration with the association RAPDFEM (Network of Associations for the Promotion of Women's Rights), organized on 8…
"I spent several months in the bush as a member of an armed group. I can assure you that MONUSCO is neither closely nor remotely associated with the M23. This is speculation created to sow doubt and discredit MONUSCO. I ask…
On February 17, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) organized an awareness-raising and capacity-building session for some twenty women in the town of Beni in North Kivu. The…
On February 17, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) closed its base in Mutwanga, located about fifty km south-east of the city of Beni in North Kivu. The shutdown is part of…
" MONUSCO puts us in good conditions so that we can be able to fulfill our mission, that of protecting the population and their properties", said the Senior Commissioner Jean-Pierre Wumbi, commander of the territorial police…
On 10 th February, the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) handed over to MONUSCO seven children who escaped from the hands of the ADF (Allied Defense Forces) rebels three weeks ago in Mwalika area (Beni…