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MONUSCO organizes a weekly press conference every Wednesday that serves as a communication space for the Mission and all UN agencies in DR Congo. The press conference is broadcast live on Radio Okapi and on MONUSCO's web platforms.
contacts :
Spokesman:
Ndeye Khady Lo - Tel: +243 997068227
Media Relations:
Adele Lukoki - Tel: +243 81 89 077 06
MONUSCO calls on INEC to address electoral observer missions’ concerns
Kinshasa, 12 December 2011: The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) takes note of the statements issued respectively by the Carter Center International Election Observation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 10 December…
Presidential and National Legislative Elections: Roger Meece appeals for calm
Kinshasa, 01 December 2011: The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, (MONUSCO) takes careful note of the statements and preliminary reports issued by the international observer missions on the conduct of the presidential and national legislative…
MONUSCO helicopter makes emergency landing
Kinshasa, 22 November 2011: One of the helicopters of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the D.R. Congo (MONUSCO) that was supposed to have delivered electoral material from Kisangani to Bokongo in the Oriental Province today was forced to make an emergency landing in Yambula…
MONUSCO urges congolese political leaders to restrain from incitement to violence
Kinshasa, 08 November 2011: The United Nations Organisation Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) is deeply concerned by the rising spate of pre-electoral violence in many parts of the country and incitement to violence by political leaders that has marred the…
MONUSCO calls for constructive dialogue to promote peaceful elections
Kinshasa, 06 September 2011: The United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) is following closely the progress so far achieved in the electoral process, especially with regard to the submission of presidential and legislative candidate applications at the…
Investigation launched into reported attempt to smuggle cassiterite ore by MONUSCO staff member
Kinshasa, 22 August 2011: Congolese authorities yesterday evening thwarted an attempt to smuggle approximately one ton of cassiterite ore from the DRC to Rwanda. The attempt was reportedly made by a national staff member of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic…
United Nations offers support and condolences following Kisangani air crash
Kinshasa, 10 July 2011: The United Nations in the DRC expresses its solidarity with the Congolese Government and people after the crash on Friday 8 July of a passenger airliner at Kisangani airport. In this regard, the United Nations also wishes to express its condolences to the families of those…
DRC: UN Joint Human Rights Office report on mass rapes in Walikale
Investigation into mass rapes and other human rights violations in Walikale reveals prevailing lack of accountability Kinshasa/Geneva, 6 July 2011: A UN investigation into serious human rights violations perpetrated in Walikale territory, North Kivu, where more than 387 people were raped between 30…
United Nations deploys joint assessment mission in response to reports of mass rapes in South Kivu,
Kinshasa, 24 June 2011: The Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Roger Meece, expresses deep concern over the reports of mass rapes in Fizi Territory, South Kivu, and launches a joint assessment mission to the affected villages as part of the United Nations response to these reports…
MONUSCO Denounces Fraudulent Use of UN Mission and UNSC’s Names
Kinshasa 15 March 2011 - It has been brought to the attention of the United Nations Organization Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, (MONUSCO) that some individuals have been using the name of both the United Nations Security Council and MONUSCO to fraudulently obtain…
Roger Meece welcomes verdict in Baraka trial
Kinshasa, 22 February 2011- The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), Roger Meece, today welcomed the guilty verdict by the military tribunal sitting in a mobile…
Reflection on the Evolution of Civil Society in the DRC
Kinshasa, 4 July 2011 - Four years on, exactly since July 2007, the Civil Affairs Section of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) and its partners, including the European Union (EU), the South African-based Electoral Institute for the Sustainability…