Kinshasa, 30 July 2010 - On 20 July 2010, an important working meeting brought together the Security Sector Reform Section of the United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), international partners from 12 partner countries, several UN agencies and a sizeable delegation from the Congolese Government. On the agenda of the meeting, was the reform of the Congolese National Police (PNC). European…
Mbandaka, 28 July 2010 - MONUSCO Public Information Office held, from 20 to 22 July,.a two-day seminar for Media professionals in Gbadolite, North Ubangi District. The participants were very appreciative and expressed a warm gratitude to MONUSCO for this initiative. The second of its kins in the media Equator Province. Thirty-seven journalists, technicians and presenters from across the district of Nord-Ubangi (Mobayi-Mbongo, Bili, Bosobolo…
Goma, 27 July 2010 - MONUSCO North Kivu Brigade Commander, Kumar Sharma, inaugurated a Quick Impact Project (QIP) "Vocational Training Centre for the families of FARDC" and presented to FARDC authorities at Rutshuru during an official ceremony, on 19 Jul 2010, amidst presence of local authorities, prominent civil chiefs, government representatives and a large crowd of local population. The QIP consists in the construction of a fully functional…
Kinshasa, 26 July 2010 - A military ceremony was held this morning at 8 a.m. at MONUC headquarters in Kinshasa, to welcome Roger A. Meece, the new Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO). Roger A. Meece formally took office on 11 July 2010 in New York where he began his new functions through contacts and meetings…
Beni, 20 July 2010 - MONUSCO has established a temporary operating base (TOB) and is planning to set up another one in the area affected by the military operations being conducted by the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC). This deployment will increase access and assistance to internally displaced persons (IDPs) and surrounding villages. It will also provide a relay for protection missions. (C aption: General Ajae Kumar…
Mbandaka, 14 July 2010 – Within the framework of its Quick Impact Projects (QIPs) programme, the United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) recently inaugurated a press centre equipped with modern working aids, in the town of Gbadolite. The project, worth 9,120 UD dollars, aims to provide decent working conditions for media professionals in this part of Equateur province. The centre, called…
Kinshasa, 14 July 2010- The United Nations Secretary-General's Deputy Special Representative in the DRC, Leila Zerrougui, the Tunisian Ambassador to the DRC, and the MONUSCO Deputy Force Commander attended a ceremony in Kinshasa to bid farewell to Tunisian peacekeepers as their contingent will be leaving MONUSCO in the coming weeks after ten years of service in the country. They first arrived in the mission in 2001 with a force of 250 soldiers…
Kinshasa, 9 July 2010 - After 3 successful months MONUSCO and representatives of the Congolese civil society symposium's monitoring cell are now approaching the end of a joint sensitization campaign conducted in Kinshasa's 24 communes. The main aim of the project is to inform the population about MONUSCO's mandate and the partnership between MONUSCO and the civil society A team composed of MONUSCO outreach professionals and civil society…
Lubumbashi, 10 July 2010 - Ms Leila Zerrougui, Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General in the DRC and acting head of MONUSCO, presided over the closing of a campaign against impunity for sexual violence, which was launched in Katanga last April. She also inaugurated a photo exhibition showing the exceptional courage of sexual violence victims as well as the efforts undertaken by the United Nations system and civil…
On the night of 13 August 2004, a transit centre assisted by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and housing Congolese refugees and Burundian returnees at Gatumba, Bujumbura Rural Province, Burundi, was brutally attacked by a large group of armed individuals. A total of 152 Congolese refugees from the Tutsi communities of South Kivu known as the Banyamulenge were killed, 106 were wounded and 8 remain missing…