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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

Portrait of Jéremie BARHANKABAGA CHIZA
On Monday, 4 December 2017, during a meeting between the Head of MONUSCO-‐South Kivu/Maniema Office and the Mission staff in Bukavu, one staff member spoke about his work and private responsibilities. After listening to him…

MONUSCO urges the youth of Kananga to engage in constructive dialogue. Photo MONUSCO/Laurent Sam OUSSOU
MONUSCO urges the youth of Kananga to engage in constructive dialogue
Kananga, 22 June 2018 – MONUSCO Political Affairs Section held an awareness session for forty young people including 11 women in the conference hall of MONUSCO headquarters in Kananga, Kasaï-Central. Drawn from member…

MONUSCO provides support for setting up mobile clinic on internally displaced sites in Katanika. Photo MONUSCO/Francois-Xavier MYBE
MONUSCO provides support for setting up mobile clinic on internally displaced sites in Katanika
Kalemie, 19 June 2018 – Canadian Ambassador, Nicolas Simard inaugurated a mobile clinic in the displaced site at Katanika, 7 km away from southern Kalemie, in the Tanganyika province, in a ceremony attended by provincial…

MONUSCO raises political parties and civil society actors’ awareness of peaceful electoral process. Photo MONUCO/Paulin MUNANGA
MONUSCO raises awareness of political and civil society actors on peaceful electoral process
Lubumbashi, 22 June 2018 – Holding peaceful elections in Haut-Katanga, Haut-Lomami and Lualaba provinces is the major issue debated by political and administrative authorities as well as political and civil society actors…

MONUSCO Force Commander awards UN Medals to Nepalese peacekeepers.
Photo MONUSCO/Guy KAREMA
MONUSCO Force Commander awards UN Medals to Nepalese peacekeepers
Bunia, 25 June 2018 – MONUSCO Force Commander, Lieutenant-General E. R. Martins Filho presided over UN Award Ceremony in honor of Nepalese peacekeepers of the 21st engineering company at the end of their mission In Ituri…

Demonstration on the use of fire extinguisher by MONUSCO Security Officer for the police members assigned to prison’s security during a training organized by Justice Support Section. Photo MONUSCIO/Bilamekaso TCHAGBELE
MONUSCO organizes fire-fighting training session for UVIRA Prison’s Security Staff
Situated in the city-center, Uvira does not have appropriate security infrastructures and its prison is overpopulated which makes it difficult to cope with a fire that might be reported in the prison premises and prevent…

Portrait of Bienvenu BAGALWA
Bienvenu BAGALWA is Congolese from the DRC, his beloved country where he was born in Watsa territory, Haut-‐Uele province. He is currently based in Kinshasa where he has been working as Human Resources Assistant for nearly…

Fifty journalists receive training on how to cover the electoral process in Uvira. Photo MONUSCO/Bilamekaso TCHAGBELE
Fifty journalists receive training on how to cover the electoral process in Uvira
46 journalists from the print media and those of the audiovisual and on-line outlets from the territories of Fizi, Walungu and Uvira in the South-Kivu province including 11 women as well as media professionals from FARDC and…

- Gender
Women in Kananga commits to actively engage in political activities
Kananga, 2 Juil 2018 - The commitment was made through their Representative Régine Mbombo, coordinator of the Educated Women and Girls’ League for Development (LIFID), at the end of a two-day workshop organized by MONUSCO…

Simulation exercise to enhance Prison Staff Capacity in Kananga. Photo MONUSCO/Laurent Sam OUSSOU
Simulation exercise to enhance Prison Staff Capacity in Kananga
Kananga, 20 July 2018 - MONUSCO/Kananga correction unit conducted riot, hostage-taking and evacuation simulation exercise at Kananga central prison. The whole central prison staff (security, intervention and training) in…

Portrait of Susan KAITESI KAMALI
« For a lady whom I met for the first time in her office at RSCE in Entebbe (Uganda), Susan Kaitesi Kamali left an excellent impression on me. Very attentive to our concerns, very helpful in assisting us through the…

MONUSCO Force Assist Crash Victims in Kasaï
Kamako, 29 Jul-18: MONUSCO Rapid Reaction Force in Kamako assisted 2 injured passengers in a plane crash that took place in Kamako on 27 July 2018. On that day, a commercial Antonov plane operating for Kasaï Airline crashed…
