Matadi, 6 November 2012 – Twenty two learners completed on 3 November 2012 their training at the Centre de Récupération du Réseau des Femmes africaines économistes (REFAE) located in the neighbourhood of Ville-Basse in Matadi, the provincial capital of Bas-Congo. For a year now, this centre has been training a first group of unemployed young women, teenage mothers and illiterate women originating from the province. Training courses include beauty…
Matadi, 14 November 2012 – A three-day workshop opened on 14 November 2012 in Matadi, Bas-Congo province, to address issues concerning civil society, such as capacity-building, restructuring of thematic groups and the holding of the Elective Assembly of members of the provincial coordination bureau. In all, ninety delegates hailing from the ten territories of this province gathered in this seaport and provincial capital to attend the workshop…
Mbuji Mayi, 13 November 2012 – The public prosecutor's office in Mbuji Mayi, Kasaï Oriental province, located at the center of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has now a specialized unit as part of the fight against sexual violence. Inaugurated on Saturday, 10 November 2012, the unit is an initiative of the United Nations Joints Human Rights Office (UNJHRO). Three magistrates and one administrative secretary will be responsible for running this…
Kisangani, 9 November 2012 - The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) facilitated the holding on 5 November of the first meeting of the Provincial Committee on Monitoring of the Criminal Justice Chain for Province Orientale. Several State and non-State actors and representatives of international organizations involved in the justice sector participated in the meeting, which took place at…
Goma, 10 November 2012 - On 26 October 2012, Mr. Roger Meece, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mr. Alexandre Luba Ntambo, Vice-Prime Minister and Defense Minister, attended a ceremony for the destruction of 242 small arms and 15,000 ammunitions in Goma, Nord-Kivu province. Three hundred and five (305) other weapons still operational were handed over to the authorities. This is the result…
Kisangani, 9 November 2012 – In Kisangani, Province Orientale, the United Nations Day (on 24 October) was celebrated on 7 November. On that occasion, the Office of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), through the Office of Public Information donated food and non-food items to the province's deprived children. Annuarité, the Supplementary Nutritional Centre and the Maison Saint…
Goma, 12 November 2012 – On 6 and 7 November 2012, a World Bank delegation led by Luigi Giovine, Lead Operations Officer in DRC, carried out an assessment mission in Nord Kivu. This visit, which was organized with the support of MONUSCO Stabilization Support Unit, was part of the Stabilization and Reconstruction Plan for Areas Emerging from Armed Conflict (STAREC). Specifically, these experts visited Goma to observe the extent of the humanitarian…
Kinshasa, 8 November 2012 – In collaboration with the Gender Affairs section of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), the Congolese government and the United Nations Theme Group on Gender launched a three-day workshop on the occasion of an open house organized from 29 to 31 October 2012 in Kinshasa. The workshop was organized as part of the effective implementation of UN Security…
Kananga, 8 November 2012 - The second session of a six-month basic training in community policing techniques began this Tuesday, 6 November 2012 in Kananga, the provincial capital of Kasaï Occidental with 300 officers of the Congolese National Police (PNC), including 53 women. Supported by the Police unit of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), this training is part of the…
Goma, 8 November 2012 - The Disarmament, Demobilization, Repatriation, Reintegration, and Resettlement (DDR/RR) Division of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) ended a two-day refresher training program on sensitization as well as its operations in the country. The training which brought together 30 participants from the various DDR/RR sites in the provinces of Nord Kivu, Sud Kivu, Kinshasa, and…