Photo: Alberto Mbuwa/ MONUSCO Mbandaka, 15 September 2011 – Three secondary schools in Mbandaka, capital of Equateur province, were recompensed by United Nations Stabilization Mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO) as a source of encouragement for their efforts to promote the culture of peace in the school environment. The winners, Pedagogical Institute of Mbandaka, Le Bon Berger School and Les Perroquets Nkoso Institute, were outstanding against…
Photo: Amadou Maiga/ MONUSCO Bunia, 15 September 2011 – The mood was festive in Bunia, capital of Ituri district, in the northeastern Province Orientale, on 14 September, as the Bangladeshi Formed Police Unit (FPU) based in this region received the United Nations Medal from the UN Police Chief, Abdallah Wafy. The 138 members of the Unit were awarded the peace medal after completing a two-year service in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The…
Photo: Jean-Michel Lybhula/ MONUSCO Mbandaka, 19 September 2011 – A two-week training program for 150 officers and inspectors of the Congolese Judicial Police started in Mbandaka on 14 September. Initiated by the Congolese Government and supported by the Rule of Law Division of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), this training is designed to provide the police officers with up-to-date knowledge…
Photo: Clara Padovan/MONUSCO Goma, 19 September 2011 - "I can assure you that everything is in place to provide security for the upcoming elections," the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General, Roger Meece, said shortly after arriving in Goma on 19 September. Mr. Meece was from the Zambian city of Ndola, where the plane of the late UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold's crashed on 18 September 1961. Mr. Meece had joined…
Operation "Kuta Futa" (The Search) started from 18 to 22 August 2011.It was jointly conducted by Bangladeshi Contingent (BANBAT-1) and FARDC in South Irumu near Lake Albert and Uganda border in Ituri district of Oriental Province, under the aegis of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Considering the recent incidents of looting by militias suspected to be led by Cobra Matata, the Operation was carried out…
Photo: Alberto Mbuwa Kinshasa, 16 September 2011 – Three cargo planes transporting three hundred tons of electoral material landed at N'Djili International Airport, in the Congolese capital, on 14 and 15 September. This first batch of electoral material from China comprised electoral kits intended for elections that are expected to start later this year. The United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), in…
Photo: John Bompengo/Radio Okapi Kinshasa, 12 September 2011 – Radio Okapi, the UN-managed radio station in the Democratic Republic of Congo, presented a charter laying down its communication policy during the country's general elections on Saturday, 10 September, to political stakeholders and the media. The document outlines the conduct that the Radio will observe throughout this political process, which will conclude in 2013. The electoral…
Photo: Maude Fournier Kisangani, 8 September 2011 – The question on how to reinvigorate the fight against sexual violence in Province Orientale was at the center of discussions at a meeting in Kisangani, the provincial capital, on 6 September 2011. The discussions were led by a team from the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) and its partners. The meeting brought together some 30 participants…
Alain Likota/MONUSCO Bukavu, 6 September 2011 – The Jules Moke instruction centre in Bukavu, Sud-Kivu province, served as the venue for the launching, on Monday, 5 September 2011, of a training program intended for 279 Community Police Officers of the Congolese National Police (PNC). Supported by the British Government's Department for International Development (DFID), and implemented by the United Nations Police (UNPOL) the concept of community…
Photo: Sylvain LIechti/ MONUSCO Goma, 6 September 2011 – United States Ambassador in charge of United Nations reforms, Joseph Torsella, recently visited Goma, Nord Kivu province, to see first-hand the challenges facing United Nations Peacekeepers in this part of the Democratic Republic of Congo that is plagued by insecurity. "I am amazed at the discipline, the sense of commitment and responsibility with which you perform your duties in a…