New York/Kinshasa, 15 October 2010 - The horrific attacks in Democratic Republic of the Congo's restive North Kivu province in late July and early August, clearly underscored the importance of civilian protection and had provoked a "major internal review" of the protection programmes being carried out by the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission there, the head of the operation told the Security Council today. Briefing the Council on…
Kinshasa/Geneva, 13 October 2010 – A high-level panel convened by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to hear directly from victims of sexual violence in the DRC reported Wednesday on its preliminary findings that the needs of the victims are largely unmet, particularly in remote areas. The panel, which held interactive dialogues with survivors and other stakeholders in six towns in three different provinces, had been tasked by the High…
Kinshasa, 13 October 2010 – The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO) welcomes the International Criminal Court's initiative having led to the arrest of Mr. Calixte Mbarushimana, the executive secretary of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) by French authorities on 11 October last. Mr. Callixte Mbarushimana was arrested in connection with crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of…
Kisangani, 11 October 2010 - About 134 tons of election equipment transported by the United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO) arrived at Kisangani on 9 October 2010 from Kinshasa by ferries. The load was delivered to the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)'s regional office in Kisangani today in a ceremony at ONATRA premises, in presence of the Oriental Province governor Médard Autsai Asenga and MONUSCO…
Kinshasa, 8 October 2010 - MONUSCO expresses its deepest concern over the death of Armand Tungulu Mudiandambu, who died in military detention at a camp in Kinshasa the midnight of 1 and 2 October. Armand Tungulu Mudiandambu was arrested on 29 September 2010 for pelting stones at the motorcade of President Joseph Kabila allegedly. MONUSCO solemnly reminds the Congolese authorities of their obligations under national and international laws relating…
New York/Kinshasa, 6 October 2010 – UN Secretary-General held his regular monthly press conference at the UN headquarters during which he touched on the "mapping report" concerning the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Concurrently, his Special Representative for sexual violence in conflict, Margot Wallstrom was winding up her eight-day mission to the DRC, where she visited the East of the country to monitor the situation. Ban Ki-moon forthwith…
Goma, 30 September 2010 - After a money changer was killed by an armed man in Kiwanja town, Rutshuru territory on 25 September, the population suspected the people in the local camp for internally displaced persons to be involved in the killing. In protest the population had established three road blocks on the main road connecting KIWANJA to RWINDI and the crowd threatened UN and civilian life and property. Kiwanja-based peacekeepers of the…
Kinshasa, 6 October 2010 - In an earlier statement today MONUSCO relayed that it had received information alleging the mistaken identity of Sadoke Kikunda Mayele. Mayele's identity was subsequently confirmed. He was apprehended on 5 October 2010 in a joint action by MONUSCO NK Brigade and the DRC authorities, in conformity with MONUSCO's mandate to support Congolese justice. Mayele is suspected for having participated in the mass rapes occurred…
From 30 July to 2 August 2010, a coalition of forces of the Mayi Mayi Cheka and the Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda (FDLR) as well as forces under Colonel Emmanuel Nsengiyumva, a total of at least 200 fighters, systematically attacked civilians in 13 villages along the Kibua-Mpofi road in Walikale territory, province of North Kivu. The assailants looted most of these villages, committed mass rapes of women, me and children, abducted…
Kinshasa, 05 October 2010 – A joint action carried out by MONUSCO North Kivu Brigade and the Government of DRC, on 05 October 2010 in the region of Walikale resulted in the arrest of "Lt-Col" Mayele, a member of the Mai Mai Cheka group. "Lt-Col" Mayele is suspected – along with other people – of ordering the mass rapes and other human rights violations which were committed between 30 July and 02 August 2010 in Walikale territory, North Kivu…