Goma, 29 May 2012 – Over 200 people representing the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), local civil society groups, the Congolese National Police, political and economic actors, as well as an important number of journalists met in Goma on 24 May to share information regarding the situation of armed conflicts currently prevailing in Nord-Kivu province. In his opening remarks, the head…
GENEVA, 31 May 2012 – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday expressed alarm at the significant increase in large-scale atrocities by armed groups in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo – including killings, rape, and the looting and burning of entire villages – and called for urgent action by the Government to stop further violence and ensure justice for the victims. UN human rights officers in the DRC* have…
By Hervé Ladsous* There is an African saying that "One hand cannot tie a bundle". Very few proverbs describe the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations so well. The success of a peacekeeping mission requires the participation of so many hands: those of the Security Council which approves it, those of troop and resource-contributing countries and those of the host country. Peacekeeping is a global partnership at the centre of which…
Uvira, 7 March 2012 – Field engineers from the Chinese battalion of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) have been rehabilitating the 135 kilometres of road stretching from Baraka through Fizi to Minembwe. On 29 February last, a 33 km stretch of newly rehabilitated road was handed over to Congolese authorities. On 6 March, Chinese field engineers were ordered to begin the second phase…
Uvira, 12 March 2012 – The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission (MONUSCO)'s Sud-Kivu Brigade Commander, Brigadier General Nadir Khan, the Commander of Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC)'s Amani Leo campaign in Sud-Kivu, Colonel Delphin Kahimbi, the Kalundu Port Administrator, and the Head ad interim of MONUSCO's Office in Uvira have inspected a boat chartered by MONUSCO to support its civilian protection mandate…
Secli-Wendji, 22 March 2012 – On the initiative of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO)'s Public Information Office, some 300 women of Secli-Wendji, a neighborhood located 20 kilometers south of Equateur province's capital, Mbandaka, came together to discuss issues specific to local rural women. The meeting was held as part of activities marking March as Women's Month. The discussions, which were…
Kananga, 22 mars 2012 – In the run-up to the forthcoming local elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and especially in Kasai Occidental province, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO)'s Public Information Office organized in the province's capital, Kananga, on 21 March, a workshop on the appropriately selected theme "Evaluation of the 28 November 2011 elections, and the next stages of…
Mbuji Mayi, 1st May 2012 – The Office of Public Information and the Police Unit of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) launched on 28 April 2012, a theatre festival in Mbuji Mayi, the capital of Kasaï Oriental province, to sensitize the local population on the Peacekeepers' role in the country and on the Rule of Law. The festival was organized in partnership with the local civil society in the…
Mbandaka, 10 April 2012 – The Congolese Nature Conservation Institute (ICCN) and other partner organizations dedicated to environmental protection requested the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) to step up its support to protect Salonga Park and the local populations around it. An operation named "Bonobo" has been underway since October 2011, and is being conducted jointly by MONUSCO…
Kindu, 6 May 2012 – the Office of Public Information and the Electoral Division of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) sensitized more than a hundred children on their involvement in the on-going electoral process in the DRC. The theme of this awareness-raising workshop which was organized on 3 May in Katako Kombe, a locality situated seven kilometres from the town of Kindu in…