A few days ago, Omar Aboud, chief of MONUSCO/Goma office visited Munigi, one of the six demobilization camps in North Kivu run by the DDR / RR section. Munigi camp is a short distance away from Northern Goma, along the road leading to Butembo. The camp was set up in 2014 when, for security reasons, it was moved from the Goma-based site to the shore of the Lake Kivu. The six camps run by MONUSCO civil-military teams are located in Kanyabayonga…
From Sunday 14 to Monday 15 June 2020, MONUSCO Corrections Unit organized a two-day training sessions on the prison registry work for ten clerks of the court of Bunia central prison, including two women and two clerks from the military department of this prison. This training, which is also taking place in other penitentiary facilities in the DRC, was aimed at strengthening the capacities of the prison registry staff and improving the functioning…
Altogether, twenty people participated in a workshop held for members of the Joint Technical Working Group (GTTC) on the implementation mechanism for the Action Plan on child protection in the Ituri province, from Thursday, June 11, 2020 to Friday, June 12, at MONUSCO Conference Room in Bunia. The Provincial Commissioner for Gender, Family and Children, also Coordinator of the GTTC, the different security services (FARDC, PNC and ANR) and state…
MONUSCO Office of Strategic Communication and Public Information organized an awareness-raising activity on COVID-19 on June 12, 2020 for 20 journalists from Beni and Butembo, in the North Kivu province. The activity took place at MONUSCO base in Madiba, Boikene, in partnership with the WHO field Coordination in Beni. When launching the activity, the chief of MONUSCO office in Beni, Josiah Obat, who is also a journalist by profession, stressed…
Forty-eight female prisoners and thirty-two under-age boys detained in Bunia prison were sensitized last Thursday, June 11, by MONUSCO HIV / AIDS Section on the Covid-19 pandemic. The Awareness session focused, among other things, on the pandemic symptoms and the means of prevention, especially in a prison environment where, due to overpopulation, the risk of contamination is even greater. On this occasion, the team of MONUSCO HIV / AIDS Section…
Fuel, food rations and water: Those are the items donated by MONUSCO to the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) to strengthen their operational capacities in the context of the fight against armed groups in Ituri. The first (official) delivery took place on Thursday, June 11, 2020 at Camp Ndromo, three kilometers from Bunia, in the presence of a representative of the Provincial Government of Ituri. For three months, MONUSCO will provide such…
| PORTRAIT | Wiem Chadlia Jrad is from Tunisia. This 47-year-old police commissioner has long cherished the hope of working for the United Nations, since childhood. "Working for the United Nations was a childhood dream that grew up with me and later became one of my professional and personal goals," she said. It was in 2002 that the dream began to materialize. "After acquiring experience with the fight against illegal immigration and general…
|PORTRAIT| The theme of the International Peacekeepers Day 2020 is " Women in Peacekeeping: A Key to Peace". This celebration is an opportunity to evoke the tremendous energy and enthusiasm shown by the female Blue Helmets personnel within the United Nations Mission for Stabilization in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO). Navy captain Lilia Budiyanti is one of those female peacekeepers. At the same time, she is in charge of Public…
|PORTRAIT| "As a Community Liaison Assistant (CLA), my job is to bring the Mission closer to the population. To this end, my task consists in fostering community engagement, in particular that of the civil society organizations for the purposes of the implementation of MONUSCO's mandate, within the framework of peacekeeping and stabilization of the eastern DRC in general and the Grand Nord, in particular. " It is in these terms that Longhi Faida…
|PORTRAIT| My name is Aimée Ghislaine MOUDIKI, I am 38 years old and I am Chief of the Squadron-Magistrate (Commander) in the Cameroonian Gendarmerie. I was deployed to MONUSCO on August 25, 2019 as a Liaison Officer, to liaise with the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) in Bunia, ITURI for a 12 month-period. One of the contributions made by my country, Cameroon, to the stabilization of peace in the DRC consists in…