Uvira, South-Kivu - Monday, 16th October 2017: To update the population on MONUSCO’s stabilization efforts in line with its mandate, Public Information office organized an informative visit for about twenty journalists to Bukavu and Uvira to receive first-hand information about the ex-combatants’ reintegration project. They were delighted to note the impact of the project through the contacts they had with beneficiaries on the ground. Kala…
GENEVA (16 October 2017) – The world’s poor are at disproportionate risk of torture, arrest, early death and domestic violence, but their civil and political rights are being airbrushed out of the picture, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty Philip Alston has warned in a hard-hitting statement to mark International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on 17 October. Even human rights groups are failing to draw the link between civil and…
11 October 2017 – The notion that elections would most probably not be held before the end of 2017 has regrettably led to the re-emergence of a climate of political uncertainty and tensions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a United Nations envoy for that country told the Security Council today. “As this Council is aware, challenges related to the implementation of the 31 December Agreement have unfortunately persisted in recent…
The Special Representative of the Secretary General and Head of the United Nations Mission in the DR Congo - Monusco Maman S. Sidikou, briefed the UN Security Council this morning on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mr. Sidikou noted that discussions have centred around the notion that elections would most probably not be held before the end of 2017 as foreseen in the political agreement of 31 December 2016 and this has led…
New York, 11 October 2017 Mr President, Distinguished Members of the Council, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to brief you today on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I would like to take this opportunity to express my deep condolences and sympathy to the families as well as to the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania for the death of two Tanzanian peacekeepers who were killed in an attack committed by…
The MONUSCO Conduct and Discipline Team (CDT) has organized a series of awareness-raising activities in the communities of North Kivu on the dangers of sexual abuse and exploitation by MONUSCO and UN staff in general. This community awareness was organized by the CDT office in North Kivu (Petit Nord) with the financial support of the Department of Field Support and the Department of Peace Keeping Operations (DFS / DPKO )with the support of the…
KINSHASA, October 9, 2017 – In the early hours of Monday morning, MONUSCO repelled an attack by suspected Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) on a MONUSCO position in Mamundioma, North Kivu province, during which the Mission sustained casualties. Initial reports suggest two peacekeepers are dead and several are wounded. The injured peacekeepers have been evacuated to Goma for medical assistance. This follows an attack in the same region earlier on…
MONUSCO North Kivu DDRRR Section has reported that at least 2,000 people, including 462 demobilized and 370 vulnerable women, have already been direct beneficiaries of the first phase of the Community Violence Reduction program. The report was made by the Unit head Dohotie Coulibaly during a workshop which brought together MONUSCO and some 50 stake holders from government, UN Agencies, civil society, and other stake holders drawn from Goma the…
Kalemie – 5th October 2017 – After donating 83 road signs to Kalemie officials and Congolese National Police, the Mission organized a series of awareness sessions on the road signs for the different categories of roads users. The awareness firstly targets the road traffic regulating police, then the motorbikes drivers. The 83 roads signs received in Kalemie through MONUSCO quick impact project have already been installed in the different roads…
Kananga – 2 October 2017: Radio Okapi has resumed broadcasting locally in the Kasaï-Central province from Monday through Friday; the populations of the Kasaï-Central province can now listen to local news and programs in Tshiluba and French on the 93.0 Modular Frequency. Radio Okapi/Kananga studio was closed twelve years ago. It was reopened last Friday 29th September by Julien Nyamwenyi, deputy chief editor of Radio Okapi who had served the Radio…