UNPOL Simion Marius ADRIAN is currently the acting chief for the UN Police Planning Unit at Kinshasa Headquarters. He is actually the Police Deputy-Commissioner and Chief of the Romanian contingent. Educated in the military school of Brancoveanu in Bucharest, Romania when he was very young; he got his undergraduate degree in 2004 with a major in Police and Human Sciences, thus completing his cycle as valedictorian. He then joined the Police…
MONUSCO Deputy Force Commander Major General Bernard Commins, has paid Homage to the fallen Pakistan Soldier (N.K)/Corporal MUHAMMAD NAEEM RAZA who was killed on the 27 January 2018 in an ambush in South Kivu by an illegal Mai Mai armed group in a very solemn ceremony which took place at the MONUSCO Air Terminal of the Goma International Airport on the 30 of January 2018. Speaking to the Press in Goma the Deputy Force Commander used the occasion…
The Secretary-General condemns the killing of a peacekeeper from Pakistan deployed with the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) following an ambush by members of an armed group today near Lulimba, 96 km south west of Baraka, in South Kivu Province. At least one other peacekeeper was wounded in the attack. The Secretary-General extends his heartfelt condolences to the family of the deceased and…
The members of the Security Council met on 9 January 2017 to discuss the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and activities of MONUSCO. They were briefed by Under Secretary General Lacroix on the political, human rights, security and humanitarian situation in the country. The members of the Security Council expressed concerns at the continued deterioration of the security situation and the worrisome humanitarian situation, which has…
Kananga, 8 th Jan.-17: 40 journalists in Kananga went through two-day training on the theme “Journalism in conflict zone,” at the initiative of UNPC, supported by MONUSCO Strategic Communication and Public Information Division. Reassured by Mr. Dieudonne Mulamba (Journalist trainer and founder of the community Radio SOZER FM), the in which the rules of journalistic writing were reviewed, helped to empower journalists in Kananga, an operational…
The present report is submitted pursuant to paragraph 52 of Security Council resolution 2348 (2017). It covers major developments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since the issuance of my previous report, of 2 October (S/2017/824). The report describes progress in the implementation of the mandate of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO); provides an overview of political…
The Secretary-General today announced the appointment of Dmitry Titov of Russia to lead a Special Investigation into recent attacks on peacekeepers and peacekeeping bases in the Beni territory of North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo. This Special Investigation will include a focus on the 7 December attack in Semuliki, in which 15 Tanzanian peacekeepers were killed, 43 wounded and one remains missing. The Special Investigation will…
The Secretary-General today announced the appointment of Dmitry Titov of Russia to lead a Special Investigation into recent attacks on peacekeepers and peacekeeping bases in the Beni territory of North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo. This Special Investigation will include a focus on the 7 December attack in Semuliki, in which 15 Tanzanian peacekeepers were killed, 43 wounded and one remains missing. The Special Investigation will…
The Secretary-General expresses concern about reports of the violent dispersion of protests by national security forces in Kinshasa and a number of cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting in the death of at least five people, the wounding of several others and the arrest of over 120 persons. The Secretary-General calls on the Government and national security forces to exercise restraint and to uphold the rights of the Congolese…
I am going to engage in a delicate balancing act of writing the portrait of the chief, without giving the impression of heaping praises on him or underestimating his talents. Let me start from the beginning, when an announcement appeared on the UN website in which the UN Secretary General said he had appointed Niger diplomat Maman Sambo Sidikou to succeed Martin Kobler of Germany whose mandate was to end on 31 st October 2015. The same note…