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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
UN Special Envoy to Great Lakes Region meets Congolese Civil Society
Kinshasa, 22 may 2013 – The United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region of Africa, Mary Robinson, met with Congolese civil society representatives in Kinshasa on Tuesday for an exchange of views on the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic…
UN Secretary-General starts official visit to Kinshasa while M23 and FARDC clash near Goma
Kinshasa, 22 May 2013 - The United Nations Stabilization Mission in DR Congo (MONUSCO) announces that the Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, has started this morning his official visit to the DRC. This visit should be seen in the context of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and…
UN Secretary-General Arrives in Goma
Kinshasa, 23 May 2013 – The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon arrived this Thursday morning in the Nord Kivu province from Kinshasa as part of a joint mission to the sub-region with the President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim. The purpose of the visit is to back the…
UN SG to convene a meeting to review the status of the implementation of the Framework-Agreement
Kinshasa, 23 May 2013 – During his joint visit to Kinshasa on 22 May 2013 with the President of the World Bank Group, the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon said he would convene a meeting in May 2013 to review the progress made thus far by the Framework-Agreement for Peace, Security and…
United Nations destroy 114 small-caliber firearms and over 6,000 ammunitions in Bukavu
Bukavu, 9 May 2013 – The United Nations Mine Action Coordination Center organized weapons demolition operation on 9 April 2013 in Bukavu, the capital city of the South Kivu province in collaboration with the Disarmament, Demobilization, Repatriation, Reintegration and Resettlement section (DDRRR) of…
MONUSCO and its partners build prison staff capacity in province Orientale
Kisangani, 17 May 2013 – The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) and several partners wound up a nine-day capacity-building training in Kisangani, administrative capital of province Orientale on 16 May 2013. The training was aimed at…
Nearly Hundred People Buried in Landslide in Masisi territory, North-Kivu Province
Goma, 20 May 2013 – A hundred diggers and villagers were buried following deadly landslide Thursday 16 May 2013 in a mining zone in Masisi. The accident happened six kilometers from Rubaya, a locality situated between Koyi and Nvuguto, an area with highly steep hills, accessible only on foot…
Officials of decentralized territorial entities trained in Gbadolite, Equateur province
Mbandaka, 11 April 2013 – From 8 to 10 April 2013, the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), in collaboration with the Project to Support Decentralization and Local Development (PADDL) which is supported by the United Nations Development…
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MONUSCO trains Sud Kivu’s journalists on reporting on sexual violence issues
Bukavu, 9 April 2013 – In Bukavu, Sud Kivu, the Public Information Office of the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) organized, on 4 April 2013, a one-day training workshop for journalists from across the province to empower and enable them to properly cover sexual…
Province Orientale in the face of challenges for actual implementation of STAREC
Kisangani, 10 May 2013 – A few years after being launched, the DR Congo's Stabilization and Reconstruction program for areas emerging out of armed conflict (STAREC) – a program buttressed by an international mechanism known as the International Security and Stabilization Support Strategy (ISSSS)-…
DDR/RR to sensitize LRA combatants through “Helicopter-Messaging”
Goma, May 23, 2013 - The Disarmament, Demobilization, Repatriation, Reintegration, and Resettlement (DD/RRR) division of the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) initiated early this month a new sensitization strategy aimed at persuading the Ugandan rebel group, the…
UN Secretary-General and President of the World Bank Group on official joint visit to eastern DRC
Goma, 24 May 2013 – The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon and the President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim arrived in Goma Thursday, 23 May from Kinshasa, on a three-day visit to the Great Lakes region. In Goma, the United Nations Secretary-General reiterated the message that the…