Bandundu town, 8 July 2011 – The voters' registration exercise which kicked off on April 2 in Bandundu province is going well, according to estimates by the Independent Nation Electoral Commission (INEC). Nearly everybody in the province who has attained the legal voting age has been registered, according to the electoral body which said to date it has registered 3 500 000 voters. The initial projected number of the voting population in this…
Uvira, 8 July 2011 – The United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) is seriously concerned by the living conditions of children detained for minor offences at the Central prison of Mulunge in Uvira, Sud Kivu province. MONUSCO's Child Protection Section provided several of these children with food and material assistance on 7 July to help alleviate their plight. The goodwill gesture was witnessed by the Head…
Mbandaka, 6 July 2011 – As elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) draw nearer, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) continues to contribute various forms of assistance to the Government and the Congolese people. In this respect, MONUSCO Office in Equateur province, in collaboration with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) held a two-day seminar on 6 July to boost women's moral, and provide…
Kinshasa, 11 July 2011 - The first ever medal parade of the Corrections Advisory Unit of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) was held on 8 July 2011 in Kinshasa. In all 46 Government Provided Personnel (GPP) including five females from seven countries were honored. Those honored came from Burkina Faso, Senegal, Kenya, Benin, Madagascar, Tanzania and Sweden. Government Provided…
Goma, 6 July 2011 - The area of Lukweti/Mutongo, that lies between Masisi and Walikale territories, in Nord Kivu province, has in recent times been a battlefield for different armed groups. These battles, the root causes of which are mainly tribal, have sadly left in their trails virtually empty villages. More than 20,000 people have been displaced and their plight is being aggravated by among other things, reported incessant sexual assault by…
Bukavu, 4 July 2011 – When 17 staff members of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), the World Food Programme (WFP), and the Roads Department of the DRC embarked on a journey from Bukavu to Sabunda on 12 June little did they know what was ahead of them. For security reasons they were escorted by 40 elements of the Sud-Kivu brigade. This was…
Kinshasa, 10 July 2011: The United Nations in the DRC expresses its solidarity with the Congolese Government and people after the crash on Friday 8 July of a passenger airliner at Kisangani airport. In this regard, the United Nations also wishes to express its condolences to the families of those killed and injured, and to offer within available resources all possible support to the Congolese authorities. To this end, MONUSCO's Bangladeshi and…
Kinshasa, 7 July 2011 - As they rose from their three-day meeting in Kinshasa today, Heads of Offices of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) will be returning to their various bases satisfied that they were better equipped to successfully translate the new Security Council Resolution, 1991 that extended the Mission's mandate for another year into action. They were in Kinshasa for…
Investigation into mass rapes and other human rights violations in Walikale reveals prevailing lack of accountability Kinshasa/Geneva, 6 July 2011: A UN investigation into serious human rights violations perpetrated in Walikale territory, North Kivu, where more than 387 people were raped between 30 July and 2 August last year, reveals continuing lack of accountability, justice and security for victims, according to a report released today. The…
Kinshasa, 4 July 2011 - Four years on, exactly since July 2007, the Civil Affairs Section of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) and its partners, including the European Union (EU), the South African-based Electoral Institute for the Sustainability of Democracy in Africa (EISA), and the United Nations Development Fund (UNDP), in cooperation with the Congolese Ministry of Planning, have bolstered…