Bunia, 03 August 2013 – The United Nations Joint Human Rights Office organized from 30 through 31 July 2013 in Bunia a capacity-building workshop for human rights activists in the district of Ituri. About twenty people including four women took part in the training on the professional ethics that guide human right activities. Participants had the opportunity to further their knowledge on the safe interview techniques for the victims and upgrade…
Goma, 1 August 2013 – The MONUSCO Force Commander General Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz told journalists in Goma on Thursday that the measure establishing a security zone in the Goma-Sake area aims to protect over one million people living in the area. In a press briefing held a few hours before the expiration of MONUSCO's 48-hour ultimatum for any armed groups or individuals in the security zone to disarm voluntarily, he said the measure allows…
Goma, 31 July 2013 - 33 Indian peacekeepers of North-Kivu Brigade have been undergoing 10-day training on the maintenance and restoration of law and order since Monday 29 July. The training has received technical support from MONUSCO Police in Goma. As part of the North-Kivu Brigades' capacity-building, MONUSCO Police/GOMA has, for the first time, organized in the North-Kivu province two trainings on the maintenance and restoration of order (MROP…
Goma, 31 July 2013 - Speaking to Radio Okapi and international media journalists in Goma, eastern DR Congo on 25 July 2013, Brigadier General James MWAKILOBWA, Commander of the MONUSCO Force Intervention Brigade (FIB) said the FIB was already at work though not yet fully operational. Taking place at MONUSCO regional headquarters in Goma, this was the general's first encounter with the press, and the international media represented included the…
Kinshasa, 30 July 2013 – In North Kivu, MONUSCO considers any individuals who are not members of the national security forces and who carries a firearm in Goma and its northern suburbs an imminent threat to civilians and will disarm them in order to enforce a security zone to protect the densely populated area of Goma and Sake.
Kinshasa, 27 July 2013 – The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, MONUSCO, is highly alarmed over the allegations of killings, forced recruitment and illegal detention of civilians by the March 23 Movement, M23. MONUSCO has received credible reports indicating that ten people were forcefully recruited by the M23 combatants on 22 July 2013 at Kibumba, in the territory of Nyiragongo, North-Kivu…
Goma, 22 July 2013 - All through the week, from 16 to 19 July, the new MONUSCO Head of Office in North Kivu, Mr. Ray Virgilo Torres, had a series of meetings with local opinion leaders that were dominated by security concerns due to the resumption since 14 July of fighting between the M23 movement and the national armed forces (FARDC). On 16 July, Mr. Torres visited the mayor of Goma at his office to discuss the general situation in the city…
Goma, 22 July 2013 - All through the week, from 16 to 19 July, the new MONUSCO Head of Office in North Kivu, Mr. Ray Virgilo Torres, had a series of meetings with local opinion leaders that were dominated by security concerns due to the resumption since 14 July of fighting between the M23 movement and the national armed forces (FARDC). On 16 July, Mr. Torres visited the mayor of Goma at his office to discuss the general situation in the city…
Kisangani, 23 July 2013 - In Oriental Province, a judicial delegation visited, between 11 and 16 July, the town of Ango, located in its namesake territory of Ango, 600 km north of the provincial capital, Kisangani, to evaluate possible sites to locate the newly created court of peace for the territory. The evaluation mission, which included representatives of the Justice Support and Human Rights sections of MONUSCO, was undertaken in the wake of…
Bunia, 23 July 2013 – The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) inaugurated Friday 19 July, a fence wall built for Andisoma primary school, in the city of Bunia, Eastern Province. It is a 40-meter long wall, with two gates at the main entrance of the primary school which is one of the largest schools in Bunia. The project, worth $5,044, was fully funded by MONUSCO quick impact projects and…