All records of inmates in Beni's central prison will soon be digitized. To enable the prison staff to properly use these new tools, MONUSCO's Corrections Unit has been holding a three-day training session for them since June 16, 2022. Eric Kikwaya and Kiza Kavira are among the trained staff. The former is a clerk at Beni central prison. He is delighted with the digitization of the prison's records. This makes his work easier. Before, everything…
Twenty or so women farmers were given market garden kits on Friday 10 June 2022 in Nyiragongo, in the Rutshuru territory, by the NGO COFEVAM, with the financial support of the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO). They are among the sixty or so women and young girls who are mothers and survivors of violence in Sake and Nyiragongo who are benefiting from this conflict-related violence resolution (CVR) project. According to MONUSCO's…
"Before, we had a very small room within the premises of a community radio station where we were suffocated, with five people stuck in a very small room. Imagine the climate in which we could work. During the Covid-19 period, only two people could stay in that small room. Understand what we had been through for five years”. Thus spoke Marie Pacuriema, the provincial coordinator of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) in Ituri, during the…
As part of its mandate to support Congolese state institutions, MONUSCO, through its Justice Support Section, launched on Monday 13 June 2022 the construction project of a building for the public prosecution office at the Goma Peace Court. The objective of this quick-impact project, which is funded by MONUSCO to the tune of nearly USD 50,000, is to improve the conditions in which justice is administered by the prosecutor's office at the Goma…
In recent months, there has been a proliferation of what can be described as hate speech, not only against foreigners but also between Congolese citizens of different ethnic backgrounds. This hate speech has increased since the resumption of fighting between the Congolese army and the March 23 Movement (M23) rebels in North Kivu province. The United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO director), Abdoul Aziz Thioye, called for strengthening…
Hunde, Hutu, Nande, Nyanga, Tembo and Tutsi community leaders gathered on Monday 6 June 2022 in Goma for a press café organized by MONUSCO. This meeting aimed to sensitize them and to plead with them for social cohesion and peaceful coexistence between their communities, in a fragile security context marked by the resumption of hostilities between the FARDC and the M23 rebels in Rutshuru territory. Addressing the participants, MONUSCO head of…
During a consultative session organized on May 27, 2022 by the Civil Affairs section of MONUSCO in Goma, 27 young opinion leaders from this city, including seven (07) women, invited the head of MONUSCO, Ms. Bintou Keita, and the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General for the Great Lakes Region, Mr. Huang Xia, to get involved, each in their own area, in the reactivation and effective implementation of the Addis Ababa Framework Agreement, in…
Since the permanent deployment in December 2021 of Malawian peacekeepers (MalBatt) to the north-east of Beni town, in North Kivu, the inhabitants of the village of Bwerere have resumed the normal course of their daily activities. Elements of the Malawian battalion have been organising motorised, pedestrian, day and night patrols to ensure the protection of civilians alongside the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and the…
" We are now married to MONUSCO and ready to welcome any UN delegation here. So said the population of Iga-Barrière, 25 km north of Bunia in Djugu territory, on 17 May 2022, at the end of a two-day workshop organised by the MONUSCO Civil Affairs section in this locality. This meeting with the local population, especially the young people of the area, aimed to build confidence between the two parties, and also to present MONUSCO’s mandate and its…
In recent years, the central prison of Beni has experienced escapes as well as threats of attack by armed groups. On Thursday 19 May, staff members of this prison completed a five-day training course initiated by MONUSCO's Prison Administration Support Unit. They learned the appropriate actions and behaviour to adopt, particularly in the event of a mutiny or attempted escape. At the end of the training, the urban commander of the national police…