Collaboration between the population and the Security Forces is key in the implementation of the Protection of Civilians’ mandate by MONUSCO Force and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC). To make this partnership effective, MONUSCO Civil Affairs office organized, on April 8 in Kabasha, a locality about twenty km south-west of Beni, an awareness session on collaboration between the authorities, the population and the…
The Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Head of MONUSCO, Bintou Keita visited Tanganyika province from April 5 to 8, 2022 accompanied by a high-profile delegation comprising Mr. Khassim Diagne, Deputy Special Representative for Protection and Operations; Mr. Bruno Lemarquis, Deputy Special Representative, Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator, as well as…
DRC: MONUSCO Pays Tribute to the Nepalese Peacekeeper who died in combat in Ituri MONUSCO and the Ituri Provincial Security Committee have paid their last respects to Anil GURUNG, the Nepalese peacekeeper who died on April 5, 2022, amidst fighting against Codeco militiamen in the locality of Bali, roughly thirty km from Djugu-center in the territory with the same name. The ceremony took place at MONUSCO military camp in Ndoromo located on the…
The Brazilian Jungle Warfare Mobile Training Team (JWMTT) wrapped up, on April 1, a training in the jungle warfare mobile techniques for the Malawian Contingent (MALBATT) troops deployed within MONUSCO Force Intervention Brigade. This training, which began on March 14, 2022, is part of the capacity building of the Mission's troops for a better protection of civilians. It aims to equip them and provide them with additional solid skills to enable…
MONUSCO Gender Section organized on March 31 in Kinshasa, an awareness-raising workshop on the promotion of positive masculinities as a tool in the fight against sexual and gender-based violence. Roughly sixty officers and non-commissioned officers of the Congolese National Police (PNC), the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and members of the civil society attended the workshop. The aim of the workshop was to bring these…
MONUSCO paid a last tribute to the eight peacekeepers from Pakistan, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Serbia who lost their lives in helicopter crash on March 29 in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The memorial service took place this Saturday, April 2 in Goma, North Kivu, in the presence of the Deputy Secretary General of the Department of Peace Operations, Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the Mission’s leadership, the Ambassadors…
The Democratic Republic of Congo has adopted a national strategy for the implementation of the Demobilization, Disarmament, Community Recovery and Stabilization Program (P-DDRCS) for ex-combatants. The appropriation ceremony for this program took place during a workshop chaired by Prime Minister Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde Kyenge in Kinshasa on March 17. The national strategy is a Congolese Government's technical tool. Its major goal is the…
The Conduct and Discipline team of MONUSCO office in Beni, North Kivu, organized on March 26 an awareness-raising workshop for vulnerable women, generally referred to as "free women" in other words unmarried women, on the fight against exploitation and sexual abuse. The objective was to inform them about the mechanisms put in place by the Mission in the context of this fight. " The workshop fits into the framework of the United Nations Secretary…
KINSHASA: Bintou Keita Encourages Solidarity among Women for a Better Female Leadership in the DRC The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bintou Keita chaired on March 22 in Kinshasa, a meeting under the theme: "improving women’s leadership in the DRC". Roughly 80 women leaders from the media, politics, civil society, and security forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo took part in this…
KINSHASA: Bintou Keita Encourages Solidarity among Women for a Better Female Leadership in the DRC The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bintou Keita chaired on March 22 in Kinshasa, a meeting under the theme: "improving women’s leadership in the DRC". Roughly 80 women leaders from the media, politics, civil society, and security forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo took part in this…