Between 4 and 8 August 2014, in Kinshasa and Goma, MONUSCO Public Information Officers, including Radio Okapi journalists, attended a training workshop aimed at providing them with new digital communication and social media skills in today’s rapidly changing media landscape Jon Greenway, a New York-based UN expert, led the workshop with training modules focusing on: the changing culture of communication; running websites and producing content…
MONUSCO Indian peacekeepers discovered, on 4 August 2014, an important cache of ammunition in Tshanzu, some 6 km south of their operating base located in the area of Tchengerero, in North Kivu. The cache contained 2 missiles (8 ft long) of an unknown type, 68 rounds of artillery ammunition (155 & 130 mm), 58 mortar shells (81 &, 60 & 120 mm), 331 rounds of cannon ammunition (30mm), 5 rounds of grenade (40 mm), 1 RPG rocket launcher, 6 anti…
Bunia, 10 July 2014: The project codenamed “islands of stability” was launched on 10 July 2014 in Geti, the territory of Walendu bindi in the south of Irumu by political and administrative delegation from Bunia along with the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) under the leadership of the Chief of MONUSCO/Bunia office, Mr. M’hand Ladjouzi and the district commissioner of Bunia. The Chief of MONUSCO…
UN report on Children and Armed Conflict in the DRC More than 6,000 children victims of conflict related violence in DRC Kinshasa, 21 July, 2014: More than 6 000 Congolese children were victims of violence between January 2010 and December 2013, reveals a UN report on the impact of the conflict on children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, launched today in New York. Many children were recruited to fight with armed groups. Others were…
Goma, North-Kivu province, 9-10 July - A reflection workshop bringing together thirty correction unit staff to reflect on the means and ways to improve security and prisons management in the North Kivu province was held on 9 - 10 July 2014. MONUSCO correction administration support section in collaboration with the provincial Ministry for justice organized the reflection within the framework of raising public awareness of the correction…
Mbandaka, on 15 July 2014 – A round table initiated by the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office bringing together 35 state and non-state actors in Mbandaka, the provincial administrative center, to assess the implementation of the 9 July 2011 law on the criminalization of torture in the DR Congo, noticed that little progress was achieved thus far in this area, in this particular province. . Prior to the assessment, they all diagnosed the…
A campaign initiated by the National League of Congolese Youth against Conflict (LNJCLC) in North Kivu, kicked off at the Ephatha School (Volcano district, Goma) on Thursday, May 15, 2014. ''Stop communal conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'', is the title of the campaign aimed at raising awareness in communities in South Kivu about peaceful coexistence and how solidarity brings added value in the resolution of community conflicts…
Banyampuli, 11 July 2014 - The Armed Forces of the DR Congo (FARDC), supported by the MONUSCO Force Intervention Brigade, launched military operations in Bunyampuli, North Kivu, on 2 July 2014, against the Mayi Mayi NDC Sheka militia group, resulting in population displacements in the area. As of 4 th July, the number of displaced people (IDPs) stood as follows: 238 families in Mpofi, 15 families in Bunangiri and 115 families in Kigoma village (4…