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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
ITURI : MONUSCO calls on the population to comply with the preventive measures against Covid-19
Faced with increased acts of banditry in the town of Bunia and its surroundings, in the Ituri Province, MONUSCO police (UNPOL) are cautiously continuing their simple and security patrols. In this context characterized by the coronavirus pandemic, MONUSCO police take advantage of such operations to…
ITURI: MONUSCO condemns the heinous crimes committed in the territory of Djugu and continues to provide support to FARDC
Djugu Territory is going through a very difficult situation. Attackers are looting civilian properties, killing innocent people, torching houses and shops, attacking defence and security forces, including MONUSCO peacekeepers. MONUSCO condemns such heinous crimes and the Mission’s Chief of Office in…
North Kivu: Monusco raises awareness among Nobili populations in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic
Since mid-March, the displaced populations in Kamango and Nobili, in the chiefdom of Watalinga, more or less 70 km north-east from Beni, have gradually started to return home. This return, which takes place in a context characterized by the coronavirus pandemic, leads MONUSCO to combine its regular…
ITURI: MONUSCO Chief condemns the killings in the territory of Djugu.
The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Chief of MONUSCO, Leila Zerrougui, has today condemned the killings committed in the territory of Djugu, Ituri province, over the past weeks. ‘’Murders, looting, arson: the civilian population in that…
Floods in Uvira: MONUSCO engaged alongside the local populations and authorities
The torrential rains that fell on the city of Uvira, in the South Kivu province, from Thursday 16 to Friday 17 April 2020, caused floods with significant material damage and several deaths (about thirty reported to date). If the death toll is evolving as the emergency services are moving, traffic…
David Gressly to the population of Ituri : ‘’ We stand on your side ‘’
‘’ What we have seen and heard is just unacceptable." It was a visibly shocked David Gressly speaking on Friday April 17, 2020 from Bunia airport before flying to Goma, wrapping up a 24-hour visit to Ituri. Upon arriving the day before, accompanied by MONUSCO Force Commander, the Deputy Special…
COVID-19: MONUSCO awarness of barrier gestures for road traffic police officers in Goma
Even if there are very few cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in Goma, the capital city of the North Kivu province, the fact remains that masks and barrier gestures are essential in order to prevent possible spread. MONUSCO police (UNPOL) recently sensitized road traffic police (PCR) on how to…
BENI: MONUSCO supports local masks-production initiatives against Coronavirus
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, women in Beni, North-Kivu province, have come forward as key players in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus. With support from the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), they are engaged in making face masks, one of the…
Ituri: MONUSCO hands over two sites for FRPI disarmament to the government
On Monday, 11 May 2020, Monusco handed over two sites to the provincial government to be used for the disarmament and demobilization of militiamen from the Ituri Patriotic Resistance Force, FRPI. The two sites are erected in the villages of Karatsi and Kazana in the Walendu Bindi chiefdom in Irumu…
MONUSCO initiates the creation of Local Protection Committees in Mahagi
In total, around 100 participants (including 30 women) from local authorities, community leaders, civil society, youth and women's associations have taken part since May 9 in a series of trainings organized by MONUSCO Bunia on security and protection of civilians in risk areas in the Mahagi…
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Beni: MONUSCO supports local masks-production initiatives against Coronavirus
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, women in Beni, North-Kivu province, have come forward as key players in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus. With support from the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), they are engaged in making face masks, one of the…
Pacification of Ituri : Leila Zerrougui interacts with national members of parliament from this province
The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Leila Zerrougui met with a delegation of eight national members of parliament from Ituri in Kinshasa on May 18. The meeting which was also attended by the Deputy Special Representative of the…