Uvira, 12 April 2012 – Following reports of irregular troop movements between 2 and 8 April in the localities of Fizi, Uvira, Baraka and Luilmbaa, Sud-Kivu province, the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) deployed troops to protect frightened civilian populations, and to secure strategic areas of the province. In Baraka, the Force intervened to secure the Office of the UN High…
Kisangani, 16 March 2012 - As part of activities marking the month of March, which is dedicated to women, the Kisangani Office of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) donated food and non-food items to female detainees at Kisangani central prison on Friday, 16 March 2012. The donation consisted mainly of mattresses, treated mosquito nets, bags of rice, buckets and mugs. In his speech…
Kinshasa, 4 April 2011 – The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) paid homage to the memory of the victims in the April 2011 UN plane crash. At the mission's main headquarters in Kinshasa, Roger Meece, Head of MONUSCO and Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of Congo, led the ceremony, which included a wreath laying and a minute's…
Goma, 29 March 2012 – The Indian battalion of the United Nations Organisation Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) in Nord Kivu has constructed a market for the people of Kibingu village in the Rutshuru territory, a straight-line distance of about 100km from Goma. With a population estimated at about 3000 inhabitants, there was an urgent need for a platform for the commercial trade of basic supplies in the…
Kananga, 22 March 2012 – In preparation for the forthcoming local elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) especially in the Kasaï Occidental province, the Office of Public Information of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) organised a workshop under the telling theme "Evaluation des Elections du 28 novembre 2011 et prochaines étapes électorales" (Evaluating the 28…
Secli-Wendji, 22 March 2012 – Some 300 women in Secli-Wendji, a neighbourhood in the outskirts of Mbandaka, capital of the Equateur province, attended a workshop organized by the Office of Public Information of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). The aim was to discuss issues relating to rural women of that locality, situated about 20km south of the provincial capital. The…
As with the previous report to the Human Rights Council, presented at the sixteenth session in March 2011 (A/HRC/16/27), this report looks at a number of past recommendations made by the High Commissioner and several human rights mechanisms and assesses the response of the Congolese Government. The High Commissioner commends the Government's efforts to implement some of the recommendations made by her Office and by other human rights mechanisms…
Geneva/Kinshasa, 20 March 2012 – A UN report released Tuesday details serious human rights violations, including killings, disappearances and arbitrary detention, committed in Kinshasa by Congolese and security forces in the context of the 2011 presidential and legislative elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Geneva/Kinshasa, 20 March 2012 – A UN report released Tuesday details serious human rights violations, including…
MONUSCO invites political actors to preserve a peaceful environment and to use legally prescribed channels to resolve disputes Kinshasa, 14 March 2012: The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) welcomes today's decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the trial of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, found guilty of enlisting and conscripting child soldiers in the East of the Democratic…
Kinshasa, 14 March 2012: The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) welcomes today's decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the trial of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, found guilty of enlisting and conscripting child soldiers in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between 2002 and 2003. The verdict is the first ever issued by the ICC since its establishment in…