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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
UN Formed Police Unit Train to Maintain Public Order
Photo MONUSCO/Sylvain LIECHTI Goma, 8 November 2011 – For three weeks, 125 freshly arrived elements from the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO)'s Formed Police Unit (FPU) were trained on public order policing techniques in preparation for…
Half a Century after: Italian Fallen Peacekeepers remembered
Photo MONUSCO/Myriam Asmani Kindu, 11 November 2011 – It is fifty years ago this year that 13 Italian peacekeepers were killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Fifty years ago and the memory of their death is still fresh. They were all pilots and they were killed on 11 November 1961 in…
National Committee for Election Security visits Mbandaka
Photo MONUSCO/ Paul-Richard Malengela Mbandaka, 10 November 2011 – A delegation of the National Committee for Election Security was in Mbandaka, Equateur province, this week to potential security threats associated with the on-going national electoral process. The delegation was led by the interim…
Nord Kivu : La Monusco forme les activistes des Droits Humains pour prévenir les violations en pério
Goma, 08 novembre 2011 - Le Bureau Conjoint des Nations Unies au Droit de l'Homme a organisé un atelier d'un jour le vendredi 04 novembre 2011 à l'hôtel Ihusi de Goma à l'intention d'environ 50 activistes des Droits de l'homme de Goma. Cette formation vise à outiller les participants en mécanismes…
Pakistani troops restored security in Sabele village in South-Kivu
South Kivu, 3 October 2011 - Pakistan Army confronted an armed group in Sabele village and made them flee this village located 32 Km South West of Baraka in South Kivu. These troops, part of the UN Stabilization Mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO), had set out to establish a Mobile Operating Base (MOB…
Sud-Kivu: Roger Meece enquires on preparations for upcoming elections
Photo: MONUSCO/Alain Likota Bukavu, 20 October 2011 – The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary –General and Head of the UN Stabilisation Mission in the DRC Congo, Roger Meece, was in Bukavu, the provincial capital of Sud-Kivu, on two-day working visit from 19 to 20 Octobre 2011, to…
Sud-Kivu: 700 More Police Officers Trained in Securing Elections
Photo: MONUSCO/Tahina Andriamamonjitianasoa/ Sud Kivu, 17 October 2011 - The United Nations Police in the Sud Kivu province jointly with the Congolese National Police Force (PNC) is currently training 700 police officers of the Mobile Intervention Group (GMI) in the Lake Tanganyika district and…
Congolese Police Force Along Sake Masisi Axes Receive Policing Equipments
Photo: MONUSCO/Clara Padovan Nord-Kivu, 17 October 2011 – As part of the activities aimed at supporting the restoration of the State Authority, MONUSCO with GIZ's (German Agency for International Cooperation) financial assistance, has turned over to the Congolese National Police Officers assigned to…
MONUSCO activates Quick Reaction Force to protect civilians in Masisi
Photo: MONUSCO/RSA Goma, 5 October 2011 - Two attacks on civilians by unidentified armed men took place in the Masisi territory, Nord-Kivu province, on 30 September. The first one occurred in the village of Kitchanga, 80 km north-west of Goma, and the second in the village of Karto on the road…
A symposium to promote peaceful elections in Province Orientale
Photo: MONUSCO Kisangani, 4 October 2011 - A two-day symposium to sensitize political parties and stakeholders on the need for peaceful elections in Province Orientale was organized by the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), in cooperation with the…
MONUSCO, UNICEF, UNDP and INEC promote open and peaceful elections in Ituri
Photo: Bilamekaso Tchagbele/MONUSCO Bunia, 30 September 2011 – In a joint effort to help achieve peaceful elections in the Ituri district, the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United…
General Harinder Singh becomes the new Commander of Nord Kivu Brigade
Photo: MONUSCO Goma, 5 October 2011 - Brigadier-General, Harinder Singh, an infantry officer, arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to take over the command of Nord Kivu Brigade on 3 October 2011. His predecessor, General Chandi Prasad Mohanty, left the country three days later after…