On Thursday, May 18, 2023, MONUSCO Goma office organized an open house at the Indian battalion base in Saké, located about twenty kilometers from the city of Goma, in North Kivu. Roughly a hundred participants took part, mainly from civil society organizations, the Congolese National Police (PNC) and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC). MONUSCO enlightened its partners on the priorities of its mandate set out in…
Heavy rains on 4 May caused mudslides in the Kalehe territory (South Kivu), sweeping away a large part of the villages of Bushushu and Nyamukubi. The official death toll stands at 438, with more than 5,000 missing and thousands more affected.
Heavy rains on 4 May caused mudslides in the Kalehe territory (South Kivu), sweeping away a large part of the villages of Bushushu and Nyamukubi. The official death toll stands at 438, with more than 5,000 missing and thousands more affected.
At a time when more than 100 armed groups are plaguing communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with grave human rights violations and sexual violence, the UN chief said on Saturday that swift, bolstered efforts must end the chronic cycle of conflict in the natural resources-rich Great Lakes region of Africa. “It is time to end the violence,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said at the high-level meeting of the Regional…
While eastern DRC is facing an upsurge of child rights abuses, MONUSCO's Child Protection Section organised a capacity building workshop for protection focal points, whistleblowers and members of the Joint Technical Working Group on Protection and Armed Conflict (JTWG) on 25 and 26 April 2023 on monitoring and reporting mechanisms for grave child rights violations. This was done with the aim of curbing the recruitment of children by armed groups…
On Wednesday 5 April, MONUSCO police launched two training courses for twenty Congolese police officers in the town of Beni. For ten days, two groups of ten police officers will be trained respectively on the direction of investigations and the management of crime scenes. For UNPOL officials in Beni, the aim is to help these twenty police officers to conduct effective investigations and to know how to behave at crime scenes in order to facilitate…
The operation to mark police and army weapons ended on Thursday, March 30, in the town of Beni. Supported and financed by MONUSCO's Mine Action Service (UNMAS), the operation aimed to identify weapons held by police and military personnel in order to ensure better monitoring thereof. Marking a weapon means giving it an identity to better control it and prevent it from ending up in unauthorized hands. “Basically, all weapons have serial numbers…
The consortium of women's organizations in North Kivu launched the "Women Elders and Ambassadors for Peacebuilding" project on Friday, March 17 in Goma, North Kivu. This project consists of setting up, in the 18 neighborhoods of Goma, women's groups tasked with fighting against hate messages and disinformation in the city. MONUSCO, which supports this project through its Gender Unit, wants to highlight the work of the women of Goma in building…
On Friday, March 10, MONUSCO handed over the Mamove Bridge over the Asefu River to authorities in Beni territory. This bridge, of great economic importance, had been out of use and closed to traffic for two years. It allows the inhabitants of this part of North Kivu to travel to the neighboring Ituri province. This MONUSCO Quick Impact Project (QIP) was implemented to respond to the circulation challenges faced by the population and the defense…
Forty women survivors of sexual violence were made aware of the empowerment of women on 8 March. The police component (UNPOL) of MONUSCO, which carried out this activity in Bunia in the province of Ituri, on the fringes of Women's Month, wants to help these women survivors of rape to take charge of their lives and provide for their needs. They have been trained in popcorn making, a trade that they can use as an income-generating activity. Also…