Kinshasa, 08 November 2011: The United Nations Organisation Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) is deeply concerned by the rising spate of pre-electoral violence in many parts of the country and incitement to violence by political leaders that has marred the presidential and legislative elections campaigns since 28 October. MONUSCO expresses its concern regarding the language employed by political leaders inciting…
Goma, 08 novembre 2011 - Le Bureau Conjoint des Nations Unies au Droit de l'Homme a organisé un atelier d'un jour le vendredi 04 novembre 2011 à l'hôtel Ihusi de Goma à l'intention d'environ 50 activistes des Droits de l'homme de Goma. Cette formation vise à outiller les participants en mécanismes de suivi des violations des Droits de l'Homme en période électorale. C'est à travers des modules sur l'Observance des Droits de l'Homme et la Loi…
South Kivu, 3 October 2011 - Pakistan Army confronted an armed group in Sabele village and made them flee this village located 32 Km South West of Baraka in South Kivu. These troops, part of the UN Stabilization Mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO), had set out to establish a Mobile Operating Base (MOB) in Sabele village in the backdrop of the area. After they were at about tree kms from the village they heard gunshots and saw the local population…
Photo: MONUSCO/Alain Likota Bukavu, 20 October 2011 – The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary –General and Head of the UN Stabilisation Mission in the DRC Congo, Roger Meece, was in Bukavu, the provincial capital of Sud-Kivu, on two-day working visit from 19 to 20 Octobre 2011, to look at the status of local preparations for the upcoming national elections. Preparations for presidential and legislative elections scheduled for…
Photo: MONUSCO/Tahina Andriamamonjitianasoa/ Sud Kivu, 17 October 2011 - The United Nations Police in the Sud Kivu province jointly with the Congolese National Police Force (PNC) is currently training 700 police officers of the Mobile Intervention Group (GMI) in the Lake Tanganyika district and Bukavu for a better policing of the electoral process. The first wave of trainees comprising 250 GMI police officers including 10 women started their…
Photo: MONUSCO/Clara Padovan Nord-Kivu, 17 October 2011 – As part of the activities aimed at supporting the restoration of the State Authority, MONUSCO with GIZ's (German Agency for International Cooperation) financial assistance, has turned over to the Congolese National Police Officers assigned to the newly built infrastructures along provincial major axes, equipments for the maintenance of law and public order. The official handing-over of the…
Kinshasa, 16 October 2011 - The NGOs Journalists for Human Rights (JHR), The Carter Center and Search for Common Ground, along with the UN Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO), have launched a competition to reward the best news reports on human rights. The competition is open to all Congolese journalists in print, radio, television and web, in addition to news agencies working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The NGOs Journalists for…
This report presents the findings of the investigations undertaken by the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) into the mass rapes and other human rights violations committed during the attacks on 13 villages along the Kibu-Mpofi axis in Walikale territory, North Kivu, between 30 July and 2 August 2010. As a result of its investigations, the UNJHRO is able to conclude that at least 387 civilians, including 300 women, 23 men, 55 girls…
Photo: MONUSCO/RSA Goma, 5 October 2011 - Two attacks on civilians by unidentified armed men took place in the Masisi territory, Nord-Kivu province, on 30 September. The first one occurred in the village of Kitchanga, 80 km north-west of Goma, and the second in the village of Karto on the road between Mweso and Kitshanga. Alerted to these incidents, the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO…
Photo: MONUSCO Kisangani, 4 October 2011 - A two-day symposium to sensitize political parties and stakeholders on the need for peaceful elections in Province Orientale was organized by the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), in cooperation with the provincial office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The symposium, which opened on 4 September in the provincial capital Kisangani…