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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
South Kivu: MONUSCO builds premises for National Police in Ruzizi Plain
Uvira, 17 April 2015 - The United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) on Friday 17 April 2015 launched two projects for the construction of premises for the Congolese National Police (PNC) headquarters in the Ruzizi Plain. Worth a total of 97,356 US dollars…
UNPOL and JICA team up to build the capacities of the Congolese National Police
In a ceremony held in Kinshasa on Friday 17 April 2015, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Police component (UNPOL) of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for the…
Uvira (South Kivu) : Awareness Campaign to Educate Local Young People about Common Offenses
Uvira, 21 April 2015 – An awareness campaign to educate local young leaders about criminal offences ended in Uvira, South Kivu province, on Tuesday 21 April 2015. The campaign, which included five sessions, was organized by the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO), in partnership with…
Shabunda: MONUSCO Officially Hands Over Completed Job Skills Training Center Project
South Kivu, 20 April 2015 – MONUSCO handed over the completed Training Center for Vocational Trades Learning and Community Reintegration Project to local authorities in Shabunda on Friday 17 April 2015. Located in the chiefdom of Bakisi, the center was built by MONUSCO in the framework of the…
Resolution 2211 explained to ISTM Uvira students
Uvira, 21 April 2015 – The new UNSC Resolution on the DRC voted on 26 March 2015 extending MONUSCO’s mandate was explained to ISTM Uvira students in the South Kivu province. 250 students took part in the session to learn about the origins and the activities of the United Nations Stabilization…
Students’ coordination in Kisangani reinforces partnership with MONUSCO
In Kisangani, the administrative town of the Eastern Province, Public Information Office of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) held on Thursday 23 April 2015, a working and informative session with a team of students’ Coordination for the Higher…
DDR/RR, political, security and development imperatives
Bukavu, 22 April 2015 —MONUSCO/DDRRR explained the goals and objectives of the Disarmament, Demobilization, Repatriation, Reintegration and Resettlement (DDRRR) process as well as related activities to the students of the University Simon Kimbangu on Wednesday 22 April 2015 in a conference debate…
Uvira: UN mandate explained to Umoja high school students
Uvira, 22 April 2015 – A real pedagogic day organized on Wednesday 22 April 2015 for 41 female students and pre-finalists students (5th year secondary school) of the high school Umoja Uvira in the South Kivu province at the headquarters of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the DRC MONUSCO…
MONUSCO and Partners Analyze Risks Associated with community Conflicts in South Kivu
South Kivu, 22 April 2015 — In Bukavu, the Civil Affairs section of MONUSCO brought together State and Non-State actors, including humanitarian agencies, for a three-day workshop starting from Wednesday 22 April 2015, to analyze risks associated with community conflicts and to plan appropriate…
Journalists in Bas-Uélé receive training in information reporting during election periods
«The role of media in election periods”: this was the main theme discussed in Buta, Bas-Uélé, Oriental Province, by the representative of the Public Information Office of MONUSCO, on the side-lines of the workshop on human rights and elections, held from 20 to 23 April. This training took place at…
Burundi: United Nations prepared for any contingency
Given the possible deterioration of the security situation in Burundi in light of the recent development on the upcoming presidential election, with the string of the massive flow of the persons fleeing Burundi to the neighboring countries, including the DRC’s territories of Uvira and Fizi in the…
MONUSCO’s mandate explained to the students of “Institut MUSOYI in Shamwana”
Manono (North Katanga) – “Understanding the concept of island of stability and the UNSC Resolution 2211” is theme selected for the sensitization session organized by MONUSCO’s public information section with a view to sensitizing the students of the “Institut MUSOYI” in Shamwana, a community…