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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.
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Ndeye Khady Lo - Tel: +243 997068227
Media Relations:
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North Kivu : The Chief of MONUCO Goma/Office has visited Munigi Demobilization Camp
A few days ago, Omar Aboud, chief of MONUSCO/Goma office visited Munigi, one of the six demobilization camps in North Kivu run by the DDR / RR section. Munigi camp is a short distance away from Northern Goma, along the road leading to Butembo. The camp was set up in 2014 when, for security reasons…
Tanganyika : MONUSCO encourages Districts Leaders to Collaborate with Police in the Fight against Insecurity
To build and strengthen trust between local actors and the Congolese National Police in the protection of civilians, MONUSCO facilitated, on June 15, a meeting between the social partners and the Congolese National Police ( PNC) senior officers in Kalemie, Tanganyika province. Besides the Congolese…
ITURI: MONUSCO Rehabilitates a vital bridge to promote trade and improve the population's safety
It took three weeks for the MONUSCO Nepalese military engineers to refurbish the Kolomani bridge on the road from Bunia to Mongbwalu in the territory of Djugu, Ituri province. The official handover of this work to the provincial authorities took place on June 18, 2020 in Bunia. It cost more than 60…
MONUSCO pays Tribute to the Peacekeeper killed by Armed Men in Beni
MONUSCO paid tribute to Sergeant Major Wahyudi Rama from the Indonesian contingent, killed on June 22, in an attack by armed men not far from the Semuliki bridge, on the road to Beni-Kasindi, the territory of Beni, North Kivu province. The tribute ceremony was organized on Saturday, June 27, at Beni…
The Civil Society in Bahema-Nord, Ituri province is reassured by MONUSCO’s and FARDC’s patrols
The Civil society in Bahema-Nord, Djugu Territory, Ituri province, has welcomed MONUSCO’s action which helped to restore calm in this entity located approximately 73 kilometres from Bunia, east of the DRC. The head of this structure, Charité Banza, who spoke on the UN radio Radio Okapi in Bunia on…
MONUSCO rolls out the construction work of a health clinic for the PNC in Tanganyika
The laying of the foundation stone for the construction of a health clinic for the Congolese National Police (PNC) in Tanganyika took place on Wednesday July 1, 2020 in Kalemie, Tanganyika province. It is Mr. Houmed Ibrahim Mohamed, the deputy Chief of MONUSCO Police Sector (UNPOL) in charge of…
MONUSCO Police supports the reviving of the coordination tasked to combat gender-based violence
The United Nations police (UNPOL) sector serving within MONUSCO in Kananga, Kasaï-Central province, organized with its partners, a brainstorming workshop around the coordination of the responses in the context of the fight against gender-based violence (GBV). The urban coordinator of the National…
175 Nepalese MONUSCO peacekeepers honoured for their commitment in the DRC
175 peacekeepers from the Nepalese Engineering Company (NEC) received UN Medals on 3rd July 2020 for their services rendered to MONUSCO. The medal award ceremony was chaired by the North Sector Commander of the UN Force in Ituri, General Ali. Those Nepalese Engineers have been performing multiple…
DRC: Attacks by ADF armed group may amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes
GENEVA / KINSHASA (6 July 2020) – The armed group known as Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) has intensified its attacks against civilians in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over the last 18 months, expanding its actions beyond areas in which it previously operated…
South-african peacekeepers are awarded un medals
Eight hundred (800) South African National Defense Force members, including 100 female soldiers, were issued with the United Nations Medals after 12-month service within the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Congo (MONUSCO), as part of the Mission’s Force Intervention Brigade (FIB). A Parade…
DRC: Attacks by ADF armed group may amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes
PRESS RELEASE GENEVA / KINSHASA (6 July 2020) – The armed group known as Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) has intensified its attacks against civilians in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over the last 18 months, expanding its actions beyond areas in which it previously…
"Only judicial inquiries will help characterize the crimes" committed by ADF in eastern DRC
During an online conversation with journalists from Beni, in North Kivu province, the Director of the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO), Abdoul Aziz Thioye, put it clearly "only judicial investigations will help to accurately establish" the crimes committed by members of the armed…