As part of its mandate, the Force Intervention Brigade (FIB) of the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) often carries out road rehabilitation works in its area of responsibility not only to facilitate troops’ movement, but also to allow civilians to access their fields and resume a normal life. It is in this context that MONUSCO Indonesian military engineering company, deployed to Beni, has undertaken…
The populations of the district of Mbau, in the territory of Beni, resumed their daily activities this Wednesday, February 12, reassured by a strong presence of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and the Force of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO). The previous evening, around 8:30 p.m., the district of Mbau was attacked by armed men identified as ADF (Allied Defense…
A part of its mandate of protection of civilians, a team from the MONUSCO Force Indian Battalion, including members of the battalion’s Female Engagement Team (FET), met on 6 February with residents of Lac Vert, a neighborhood on the outskirts of the city of Goma, North Kivu province. The residents were represented by 15 women and 6 men at the meeting, which took place at the office of the neighborhood chief. The women reported a rise in cases of…
Bunia, 10 February 2020- A four-week basic computer training session for Ituri’s youths organized by the MONUSCO Bangladeshi contingent, in coordination with the local government took place this month. A graduation ceremony was held at the Professional Center of Bunia, during which a delegation from the Bangladeshi contingent awarded the training completion certificate to the 21 participants, including 7 women. Such training initiatives are…
Kananga, February 5, 2020 - The United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) and the Provincial Ministry of Justice and Human Rights in Kasaï Central have submitted the report of popular consultations on the needs for justice, reparations and new conflicts prevention in the Kasaï Central province, to the provincial Governor. It emerges from this report that the people of Kasai Central strongly support the establishment of the provincial…
South-Kivu, RDC, 4 January 2020 - The first ever Pakistani Female Engagement team in any United Nations (UN) mission around the world received UN medals for serving in the Peacekeeping Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). A team of 15 Pakistani women officers, on Friday, 31 January 2020, received major recognition for being the first all-female group from Pakistan to serve in a UN peacekeeping mission. South Kivu Province…
On 9 December 2019, the Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations asked Lieutenant General Carlos Alberto Dos Santos Cruz to lead an independent assessment of MONUSCO’s response to the high number of attacks against civilians allegedly committed by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in Beni territory, North Kivu Province, and attacks against the Ebola response in Mambasa territory in Ituri Province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC…
Kinshasa, 15 January 2020 - During her first press conference for the year 2020, on Wednesday 15 January in Kinshasa, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of MONUSCO, Leila Zerrougui, stated that in the new mandate of MONUSCO adopted by the UN Security Council on 19 December 2019, there are clarified and strengthened provisions to make the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo more effective. In…
A Beni-based MONUSCO Police (UNPOL) team met on Tuesday 14 January 2020 with leaders of the Mulekera and Bungulu communities, in the Bundji health area in Beni, North Kivu, to discuss the mandate of MONUSCO in general, and that of MONUSCO Police in particular. These exchanges aimed at restoring and strengthen confidence between MONUSCO and the local population, following the recent demonstrations against MONUSCO, which resulted in the destruction…
Bunia, 15 January 2020 - The Director of the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office, Abdoul Aziz Thioye, paid a brief visit to Bunia in Ituri on Tuesday, 14 January 2020, to meet with local authorities and the population after the release, 4 days earlier, in Geneva, Switzerland, by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, of the report on inter-ethnic violence in the Djugu Territory. During this violence, which took…