MONUSCO Deputy Force Commander Major General Bernard Commins, has paid Homage to the fallen Pakistan Soldier (N.K)/Corporal MUHAMMAD NAEEM RAZA who was killed on the 27 January 2018 in an ambush in South Kivu by an illegal Mai Mai armed group in a very solemn ceremony which took place at the MONU

The members of the Security Council met on 9 January 2017 to discuss the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and activities of MONUSCO. They were briefed by Under Secretary General Lacroix on the political, human rights, security and humanitarian situation in the country.

The present report is submitted pursuant to paragraph 52 of Security Council resolution 2348 (2017). It covers major developments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since the issuance of my previous report, of 2 October (S/2017/824).