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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
Simulation on volcanic eruption in Goma
Goma, July 3rd, 2017 - The North Kivu Civil Protection Service has organized a simulation exercise involving about 2, 000 families and constituting over 11, 000 persons on Monday 03 of July in Goma to evacuate the population in the event of a volcanic eruption of the two volcanoes of Nyiragongo and…
MONUSCO installs solar streets lighting in the districts of Nzuma and Ngite, territory of Béni
Béni – 7 July 2017: After Erengeti, Mavivi and Mayangose districts in the city of Béni, two more districts in Béni are now lit with solar energy as part of the MONUSCO-funded project for the reduction of community violence which will contribute to civilians’ protection and facilitate the ex…
Security Council warned DR Congo’s violence on rise amid little political progress
11 July 2017 – The security situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to be a major source of concern, with violence in the Kasai provinces, in the western part of the vast country, reaching “disturbing” levels, the United Nations Security Council was told today. Presenting…
Commemoration of Nelson Mandela Day 18 July 2017
The South African Peacekeepers in association with the Association of the Volunteers of Congo (ASVOCO) have organized a Peaceful March in Goma on the 17 of July as prelude to the commemoration of Nelson Mandela Day on the 18 of July 2017. The March for Peace which was accompanied by the Kimbangist…
Closure of 5 fixed bases in the North-Kivu province for the purposes of more flexibility and mobility
Kinshasa, 19 July 2017 – Within the framework of its change of mode of operations, MONUSCO will close, as from 31st July, five fixed bases in the territories of Walikale, Masisi and Lubero in the North-Kivu, says the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in DRC, Maman Sidikou. Those…
- Human Rights
Principales tendances des violations des droits de l'homme en juin 2017
Entre janvier et juin 2017, le BCNUDH a documenté 2.822 violations et atteintes aux droits de l’homme sur l’ensemble du territoire de la RDC, soit une forte augmentation par rapport à la même période l’année précédente (2.343 violations avaient été documentées entre janvier et juin 2016), confirmant…
- Human Rights
DRC: Zeid appoints team of international experts on the Kasais
GENEVA (26 July 2017) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Wednesday announced the appointment of Bacre Ndiaye (Senegal), Luc Côté (Canada) and Fatimata M’Baye (Mauritania) as international experts on the situation in the Kasai regions of the Democratic Republic of the…
UN Security Council expresses concern at the slow implementation of the 31 December 2016 agreement.
Statement by the President of the Security Council on DRC The Security Council expresses concern at the current political situation in light of the challenges facing the implementation of the 31 December agreement, the deterioration of the security situation, in particular in the Kasaï region, as…
Wanted for crimes against humanity, the rebel Sheka surrendered to MONUSCO today in North Kivu
Goma, 26 July 2017 - Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka, founder and leader of Nduma defense of Congo (NDC) has surrendered Wednesday 26th July to MONUSCO in Mutongo, approximatively 10 km North of Walikale, North Kivu. He has been transferred to Goma. Sheka is wanted since 2011 under a national warrant for crimes…
- Gender
- Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV)
Visit of Deputy Secretary General Amina J Mohammed in Goma
Goma, 27 July 2017 - The Deputy Secretary-General Madam Amina J Mohammed has taken a firm resolve to ensure that the women in the MUGUNGA consolidated camp for Internal Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp return home in “Dignity and Humanity” which is not a favor but a right she said. Madam Amina Mohammed…
- Gender
- Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV)
Peace is the 'bedrock' for women's development and human rights UN deputy chief says in DR Congo
25 July 2017 – The importance of reversing the tragedies of violence, particularly against women and children, and ensuring that women's and girl's voices are heard in all aspects of society are at the core of the second leg of a high-level United Nations-African Union (AU) mission to Africa, which…
MONUSCO underlines the need for the respect of fundamental freedoms and rights and urges all Congolese stakeholders to exercise restraint
Kinshasa, 1 August 2017: Maman S. Sidikou, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of MONUSCO, expresses concern over the arbitrary arrests and detentions which occurred in different parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), following peaceful civil society…