On the second day of his official visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Thursday, October 21, 2021, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, met with DRC Head of State Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo at a Residential site known as the City of the African Union, in Kinshasa. In addition to security issues, both personalities discussed the upcoming general elections scheduled in the DRC in 2023. Jean-Pierre…
UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, arrived in Kinshasa on Tuesday (October 19) from New York, United States of America. On a six-day mission to the DRC, the French diplomat intends to assess MONUSCO’s mandate with Congolese authorities and various UN partners. He was met at N’djili International Airport by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in the DRC and MONUSCO chief, Bintou Keita. The day…
“We welcome this project very favorably, because the condition of the road from Komanda to Luna is very bad. (…) It will contribute to improving security in the area. This road is very busy with taxis, large and small vehicles with goods on board; however, ADF members are moving about near this road ”. This statement by the civil society leader in Walese Vonkutu chieftaincy, Dieudonné Malanga, reflects the enthusiasm shown by the population of…
MONUSCO triggered the process for its exit from Tanganyika Province a few months ago. In accordance with the exit plan drawn up for this purpose, the United Nations Mission will no longer have any presence in this province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as of June 30, 2022. In this perspective, the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator, David McLachlan-Karr, led a…
From Kinshasa to Bunia, via Kalemie and Goma, the International Day of Peace (IPJ) was celebrated on September 21, 2021 by MONUSCO, through holding thorough reflections on issues such as community conflicts resolution, youth involvement in the construction of peace, or yet responsible management of information by the media with a view to preserving peace. Community conflict resolution In Kalemie, the UN Mission organized discussions around the…
" The UN Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjöld, of blessed memory, will forever be remembered by Africans, in general, and the Congolese, in particular, due to his fight for justice and equality, as well as the critical role he played in the consolidation of the fledgling African democracies in the sixties ”. Quoting an excerpt of a statement by the Congolese Head of State, President Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, at the Swedish Embassy in the…
“All the Mission’s leadership are here. This means we attach great importance to our partnership with DRC,” declared the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in the DRC and Chief of MONUSCO, Bintou Keita, in Bunia, Ituri on Monday, September 6, 2021. The Guinean diplomat is on a working visit to the east of the country, at the head of a high-profile delegation including her two deputies : the Senegalese Khassim Diagne…
MONUSCO has facilitated reconciliation between two communities in Irumu territory in Ituri province. On 10 August 2021, the Hema and Bira communities signed an act of commitment on community rapprochement for peaceful cohabitation in the Makabo and Tsere groups, some ten kilometers from Bunia. At the end of four days of meetings facilitated by MONUSCO, the notabilities of this territory, as well as the customary chiefs, decided to bury the…
In North Kivu, MONUSCO and its partners, including the Congolese government, last week closed the stabilization projects in the Bwito chiefdom in Rutshuru territory. The closing ceremony coincided with the inauguration of the new Congolese National Police (PNC) station in Kikuku, the chief town of the chiefdom, by Jean-Romuald Ekuka Lipopo, Vice-Governor of North Kivu. Called "Njia za Makubaliano" (Path to Agreements) and "Pamoja Kwa Amani Na…
Beni courthouse located in the city center, not far from the town hall, is built near a market and was not fenced. This position has often been the direct cause of numerous incidents, the most frequent of which are jail breaks by detainees and defendants after the hearings. The latter have often taken advantage of the proximity of the market and the confusion it entails to escape. The national police, on the other hand, often find themselves…