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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
Elena Schiatti : "My greatest happiness is to see the peaceful smile on the face of a survivor of sexual violence when justice is done to her".
| PORTRAIT | Kasaï province in the Democratic Republic of Congo experienced a serious security crisis between 2017 and 2018, following the rebellion triggered by the Kamwina Nsapu militia against the State security forces. This crisis resulted in a great deal of human damage, including gross human…
JOSIANE NZIGIRE : "My wish is to see many more women on the ground alongside the vulnerable populations to give them support and hope."
| PORTRAIT | Her name is Josiane Nzigire. The young Congolese woman has been working since February 2013, as Community Liaison Assistant (CLA) in the Civil Affairs section at the office of the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), in Kalemie, Tanganyika province .…
AIMEE GHISLAINE MOUDIKI : "As a woman, I make myself useful to the society by helping to save lives"
|PORTRAIT| My name is Aimée Ghislaine MOUDIKI, I am 38 years old and I am Chief of the Squadron-Magistrate (Commander) in the Cameroonian Gendarmerie. I was deployed to MONUSCO on August 25, 2019 as a Liaison Officer, to liaise with the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) in…
JOY MMOTONG, in the service of Peace and the Helicopters
|PORTRAIT | Joy MMOTONG wears her cap, nicely fixed over the skull, letting everyone see her short hair, sparkling eye and an attractive smile. Her gray overalls turns out to be her daily costume. Her function : Oryx Helicopter Mechanic within MONUSCO Helicopter Composite Unit at Goma Airport in the…
LONGHI FAIDA JEANNETTE: A Congolese Peacekeeper Serving Local Communities
|PORTRAIT| "As a Community Liaison Assistant (CLA), my job is to bring the Mission closer to the population. To this end, my task consists in fostering community engagement, in particular that of the civil society organizations for the purposes of the implementation of MONUSCO's mandate, within the…
LILIA BUDIYANTI: "Serving as a Peacekeeper is an Honor for Me and for my Country, Indonesia"
|PORTRAIT| The theme of the International Peacekeepers Day 2020 is " Women in Peacekeeping: A Key to Peace". This celebration is an opportunity to evoke the tremendous energy and enthusiasm shown by the female Blue Helmets personnel within the United Nations Mission for Stabilization in the…
WIEM CHADLIA JRAD : Overflowing energy in the service of the United Nations Police in the DRC
| PORTRAIT | Wiem Chadlia Jrad is from Tunisia. This 47-year-old police commissioner has long cherished the hope of working for the United Nations, since childhood. "Working for the United Nations was a childhood dream that grew up with me and later became one of my professional and personal goals,"…
MONUSCO reinforces FARDC’s operational capacities in the context of the fight against armed groups in Ituri
Fuel, food rations and water: Those are the items donated by MONUSCO to the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) to strengthen their operational capacities in the context of the fight against armed groups in Ituri. The first (official) delivery took place on Thursday, June 11, 2020 at Camp Ndromo, three…
Fight against COVID-19: Journalists from Beni sensitized by MONUSCO and the WHO
MONUSCO Office of Strategic Communication and Public Information organized an awareness-raising activity on COVID-19 on June 12, 2020 for 20 journalists from Beni and Butembo, in the North Kivu province. The activity took place at MONUSCO base in Madiba, Boikene, in partnership with the WHO field…
MONUSCO raises women prisoners’ and minors’ awareness of the Covid-19 and HIV-AIDS in Bunia
Forty-eight female prisoners and thirty-two under-age boys detained in Bunia prison were sensitized last Thursday, June 11, by MONUSCO HIV / AIDS Section on the Covid-19 pandemic. The Awareness session focused, among other things, on the pandemic symptoms and the means of prevention, especially in a…
Child Protection: MONUSCO supports the development of a Provincial Roadmap for Ituri
Altogether, twenty people participated in a workshop held for members of the Joint Technical Working Group (GTTC) on the implementation mechanism for the Action Plan on child protection in the Ituri province, from Thursday, June 11, 2020 to Friday, June 12, at MONUSCO Conference Room in Bunia. The…
MONUSCO has trained court registry staff members in Bunia central prison on the court registry work
From Sunday 14 to Monday 15 June 2020, MONUSCO Corrections Unit organized a two-day training sessions on the prison registry work for ten clerks of the court of Bunia central prison, including two women and two clerks from the military department of this prison. This training, which is also taking…