Kinshasa, 14 January 2013: The Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) of the United Nations for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and head of MONUSCO, Mr. Roger Meece, welcomes the return to Bukavu today of Dr. Denis Mukwege, chief medical doctor at the Panzi hospital, whose contribution to the physical and mental rehabilitation of women victims of rape in this province is recognized world-wide. "Today is a great day for…
Kinshasa, 2 January 2013: Between 21 and 24 December 2012, the United Nations Organisation Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) dispatched an evaluation team to Mpati, Nyange and Bibwe in the territory of Masisi, Nord-Kivu province. The team was comprised of members of the Civil Affairs as well as of the Disarmament, Demobilization, Repatriation, Reintegration and Resettlement Sections (DD/RRR) and the Nord-Kivu…
Kinshasa, 30 January 2013: Since yesterday, certain media outlets have been posting a document ascribed to the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) which would confirm a cooperation between the Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda (FDLR) and the Forces armées de la République démocratique du Congo(FARDC). The document is a falsification and there is no doubt that the purpose…
Bukavu, 24 January 2013 - The Egyptian Formed Police Unit of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) warmed the hearts of orphaned children in Sud Kivu province when they brought them a bundle of toys on Thursday, 24 January 2013. About a hundred children live in this care center, which is managed by the NGO Œuvre d'Espoir pour l'Enfance in the Panzi neighborhood of Bukavu, the…
Uvira, 25 January 2013 - Last December in Uvira, the Child Protection section of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) presented an action plan to combat the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict and serious human rights violations committed against them by elements of the Congolese defence and security forces. The event was attended by some fifty local actors including military and…
Uvira, 25 January 2013 – In order to encourage the communities of the Fizi territory in Sud Kivu to live together and develop their region, the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) and the Fizi and Itombwe frameworks for inter-community dialogue (CCI) jointly organized a sensitization workshop for local chiefs and leaders on safeguarding peace, security and peaceful coexistence. Since…
Uvira, 25 January 2013 - The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) organized a two-day training workshop for journalists from Uvira and Fizi territories, Sud Kivu province, designed to build their professional capacities, increase their knowledge in basic journalistic techniques as well as the ability of local media to work in synergy. The workshop was attended by 70 journalists, 80…
Goma, 25 January 2013 – The Head of the Public Information Division of United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), Madnodje Mounoubai, on Wednesday, 23 January 2013, launched the first edition of what will become the new format of the UN Mission's weekly press conference, which will link up journalists of Kinshasa with their peers in Goma, the regional capital of eastern DRC in Nord Kivu…
Bunia, 23 January 2013 – The Ituri Public Information Office of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), at the start of this new year, donated textbooks to pupils in a number of schools in Sud Irumu, one of the five territories of the district of Ituri. In Ituri, Province Orientale, as in several other parts of the DRC, some parents have to stretch their meager savings to the maximum in…
22 January 2013 – Stressing that now is not the time for business as usual, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for innovative action to tackle the numerous challenges facing the world and to meet shared goals such as sustainable development, disarmament and conflict resolution. "My fervent hope – and our common urgent need – is that we can stop moving from crisis to crisis, from symptom to symptom, and instead address the underlying…