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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
Congolese national police trained on Gender in Matadi, Bas-Congo province
Matadi, 6 June 2012 – How best to incorporate the gender concept into the Congolese National Police Force is the theme addressed by a hundred police elements during a workshop held on 6 June by the Gender section of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo…
MONUSCO brings Kananga fuel storage fire under control
Kananga, 8 June 2012 – Firefighters from the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) put out a fire that started at a fuel storage facility in a busy area of Kananga, the capital of Kasai Occidental province, on Thursday, 7 June 2012 at about 5…
MONUSCO provides clean water to Mbandaka University hospital
Mbandaka, 2 June 2012 – The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) inaugurated on Peacekeepers Day a water pump at the University hospital of Mbandaka, the capital of the Equateur province. Prior to this project, women were forced to deliver…
MONUSCO Police quells down violence during soccer game in Kisangani
Bunia, 10 June 2012 – A game between two soccer teams of Province Orientale turned violent on 6 June. MONUSCO police promptly intervened to avert the worst. The soccer game between Association sportive Nika (AS Nika) from Kisangani and Cercle sportif Eldorado (CS Eldorado) from Bunia that took place…
ADF-NALU at the center of a tripartite meeting between DR Congo, Uganda and MONUSCO
Kisangani, 13 June 2012 – Kisangani, the provincial capital of Province Orientale hosted on Tuesday, 12 June 2012, a tripartite meeting between the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo…
Thirty magistrates trained in Kisangani to address electoral disputes
Kisangani, 13 June 2012 – Thirty magistrates in Kisangani, Province Orientale, attended a training workshop from 12 to 14 June 2012 dealing with conflicts resolution in elections. The training was organized jointly by the Council of the High Court and the Kisangani Court of Appeals, with the support…
- Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV)
FARDC officers receive training to address sexual violence in Ituri
Bunia, 2 June 2012 – Twenty-five officers and non-commissioned officers of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) underwent five days of training on sexual violence. The training, which started on Thursday, 7 June, also addressed the issues of human rights, child protection…
UNPOL assist Mpokolo Wa Moy care center in Kananga
Kananga, 15 June 2012 – A newly deployed Formed Police Unit of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) in Kananga, the capital of Kasaï Occidental province, visited on 12 June 2012 a care center named Mpokolo Wa Moy in the district of…
Internally displaced persons in Binyampuli find refuge at nearby MONUSCO Base
Goma, 28 May 2012 – Scores of villagers in Walikale territory, Nord Kivu province, fled their homes following repeated attacks from armed elements. Some 2000 villagers found refuge in a primary school in Binyampuli, close to a military base of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in…
- Gender
MONUSCO commemorates the 15th anniversary of UNSCR. 1325 (2000)
About 50 women activists converged in Goma on 30 October 15, 2015 to take stock of the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 in DRC and in North Kivu in particular. The event organized by MONUSCO Gender Section in collaboration with civil society women's organizations in…
Pillay cites 'appalling' human rights record of leaders of M23 mutineers, fears further abuses
Geneva, 19 June 2012 - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, expressed deep concern Tuesday about the safety of the civilian population living in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as fighting continues between the Congolese army and the M23 movement, which has…
- Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV)
FARDC training on the issue of sexual violence in Ituri
Bunia, 15 June 2012 –Twenty-five officers and non-commissioned officers of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) underwent five-day training on sexual violence. During the workshop which started on Thursday, 7 June, the following related topics were also addressed, namely…