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Bunia, 11 September 2010 - Lieutenant-General Chander Prakash, new MONUSCO Force Commander visited Ituri for the first time from 7 to 9 September last to see for himself how the security situation is evolving in that part of…

Kinshasa, 14 September 2010 – While the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) is continuing its effort to reduce violence in eastern DRC, its is also focusing on the stabilisation and peace…

16 September 2010 - As part of the Quick Impact Project (QIP), MONUSCO Guatemalan Special Forces contingent undertook the construction of detention facilities for females in Bunia. The initiative was in response to a request…

16 September 2010 - From 30 August to 10 September, 60 journalists and media managers from North and South Kivu province took part in a workshop held respectively in Bukavu and in Goma to reinforce their capacities on media…

Goma, 18 August 2010 - On the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, three Indian Blue Helmets of the IV Battalion were killed in an attack on the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO)'s…

Kinshasa, 30 August 2010 – Pursuant to rapes earlier this month in North Kivu, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki - moon decided to dispatch on the ground the Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations. Atul Khare…

Mbandaka , 1 September 2010 - The Child Protection Section has organized a training this week for fifty officers of the 3rd Military Region of the FARDC . The purpose of this training was to help these soldiers understand the…

Goma, 19 August 2010 - A ceremony in honor of the three Indian soldiers killed yesterday in an attack in MONUSCO base in Kirumba was held today at the international airport of Goma in the presence of military and civilian…

Mbandaka, 21 August 2010 - The second edition of Mbandaka theatre festival, launched in 2009 by the Public Information Section of MONUC / Mbandaka, was held this weekend in the capital of the province. The objective of the…

Bunia, 23 August 2010 – MONUSCO Public Information office launched a sensitization campaign on Security Council resolution 1925, adopted on May 28, 2010, on MONUSCO mandate, in order to inform and educate the population of…

Kinshasa, 18 August 2010 - The new Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations in the Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC ) and Head of Mission for Stabilization in DRC ( MONUSCO ), took office last July 26…

New York, 24 August 2010 - The Secretary -General Ban Ki -moon on Tuesday expressed outrage at the rape and sexual assault of about 154 Congolese civilians during a recent attack by armed elements Mayi - Mayi and the…