Mbuji-Mayi, 27 August 2013 – An awareness and information campaign conducted in five municipalities of Mbuji-Mayi, the administrative capital of the Eastern Kasaï province on the mandate of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) concluded on 27 August 2013. Backed by the United Nations, the campaign was aimed at sensitizing the population in anticipation to the upcoming local elections. It was…
5 September 2013 – Top United Nations officials focusing on the Democratic Republic of the Congo are today in the Ugandan capital of Kampala attending talks with regional leaders meant to reenergize peace efforts between the Congolese Government and M23 rebels. Special Envoy of the Secretary-General to the Great Lakes Region, Mary Robinson, and Martin Kobler, the Secretary-General's Special Representative in the DRC, are participating in the so…
Kananga, 3 September 2013 – A team of the Civil Affairs section of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) visited the territory of Mweka, Western Kasai, from 16 to 21 August 2013 on a mission aimed to advance the reconciliation and peace process between three local communities in a decades-long conflict. The process was launched last year. The population in the villages Bungamba, Bakatombi and…
Goma, 2 September 2013 – The Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, Mary Robinson, arrived in Goma, North-Kivu province, on Monday, 2 September 2013. Mrs. Robinson is on a joint regional mission, which she will conduct with other Special Envoys from the African Union, European Union and the United States to back diplomatic peace efforts in eastern D.R. Congo and the Great Lakes region. Mary Robinson…
Goma, 29 August 2013 - The Head of Office of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the D.R. Congo (MONUSCO) in North Kivu province, Ray Torres Virgilio, and the spokesperson for the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC), Colonel Olivier Hamuli, updated the local and international press on the security situation in the city of Goma. FARDC Military spokesperson, Colonel Olivier Hamuli, said "MONUSCO and FARDC troops never…
Bunia, 27 August 2013 - The United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) officially handed the prison cell of the prosecutor's office in Bunia, Eastern province to local judicial authorities on Tuesday, 27 August 2013, after completing rehabilitation and extension work. The rehabilitation and extension work came in following a series of visits made by MONUSCO and Human Rights NGOs to the sites as well as…
Bunia, 26 August 2013 – Within the framework of the working visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo from 22 to 28 August 2013, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mrs. Flavia Pansieri visited the district of Ituri, Eastern province from 24 to 26 August 2013 to assess the human rights situation there. Additionally, Mrs. Pansieri assessed the work done by the United Nations Human Rights Joint Office in that part of the country…
Bunia, 27 August 2013 – The United Nations Stabilization Mission in DR Congo (MONUSCO) officially handed on Monday 26 August 2013 to local authorities in Bunia, district of Ituri, a safe drinking water fountain built to facilitate access to clean drinking water in this district. The fountain, built within the framework of MONUSCO quick impact projects, is located at Bankoko, one of the twelve districts of the city of Bunia. The work was carried…
Goma, 26 August 2013 - Martin Kobler, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in the Democratic Republic of Congo wound up a three-day visit to Goma on 26 August 2013. The mission was undertaken a day after a bomb shell launched by M23 elements fell on the city of Goma killing three people. The chief of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in DR Congo (MONUSCO) arrived in the capital of the North-Kivu province on 22…
Kinshasa, 28 August 2013 – A Peacekeeper was killed on 28 August as the M23 directed artillery fire on a United Nations position close to Kibati heights north of Goma. The attack occurred as MONUSCO supported action by the FARDC to push the M23 off the heights from where they have been shelling Goma. "I am outraged by today's killing of a United Nations Peacekeeper from Tanzania by the M23", says Martin Kobler, Special Representative of the…