United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited Mangina this Sunday, September 1, 2019, as part of a 72-hour visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In Mangina, North Kivu, groups of children playing around rammed houses; stalls are open at every corner of streets. In eastern DR Congo, in the very heart of the village where the Ebola virus disease was declared on August 1, 2018, life is going on as if nothing had happened. Yet it…
On the 2nd day of his visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday, September 1, 2019, visited the Ebola Treatment Center in Mangina, a rural municipality in Beni territory, North-Kivu province, where the first cases of Ebola had been detected a year ago. At the end of the visit, the UN chief, speaking to the press, said an appropriate multi-pronged response was needed to end the epidemic. For the…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres arrived on Sunday, September 1, 2019 in Beni, North Kivu on a three-day visit to the DRC. UNSG paid tribute to all fallen UN troops for the cause of peace in the DRC. In front of the memorial erected at the Tanzanian contingent's base in Mavivi, prepared for the fallen peacekeepers who served in the MONUSCO Intervention Brigade could easily be read the names of all the "martyrs of peace”: 22 Tanzanians, 12…
"MONUSCO has a very important role to play in the DRC," UN Secretary-General said on 1 September 2019, the second day of his visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo, speaking on the future of the peacekeeping mission. From the rural community of Mangina, in Beni territory, North Kivu province, where he visited the Ebola Treatment Center on Sunday, António Guterres said he was looking to the Security Council for the renewal of MONUSCO mandate…
The territory of Lodja has been facing violence since the end of Governor’s election in the Sankuru Province last month. The growing insecurity in that area is characterized by killings and destruction of homes; as a result, MONUSCO is busy organizing several activities in a bid to effectively restore the peace in that part of the country. MONUSCO team deployed in Lodja from 1 st to 6 th August reported 142 houses torched in Nambelo by…
Butembo, August 6, 2019 - MONUSCO police has lent its support to Congolese National Police (PNC) Investigators in a bid to determine the circumstances surrounding the recent attack on the Beni-Butembo road axes aiming a convoy of the Ebola virus disease response team. The investigations are aimed to gather elements that would help identify the perpetrators of the attack, with a view to possible prosecution. UN technical and scientific police…
The Security Council reiterates its grave concern about the most recent outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC). It takes note that the World Health Organisation(WHO)has declared the Ebola outbreak in the DRC a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The Security Council highlights the urgency of the Ebola response, because the disease could spread rapidly, including to neighbouring countries…
The members of the Security Council met on 24 July 2019 to discuss the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and activities of the United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO). They were briefed by the Special Representative of the Secretary General, Leila Zerrougui, on the political, human rights, security and humanitarian situation in the country. The members of the Security Council noted some positive…
About 3,340 women, children and men have been given support to restart their lives after falling prey to sexual exploitation or abuse (SEA) by United Nations personnel, thanks to a Trust Fund established in 2016. On Friday, a meeting was held at UN Headquarters in New York, to report on the progress and impact made, and collect new pledges from Member States. “Over the years, in my travels, I have been haunted by many encounters with women and…
Kalemie, 28 May 2019 : MONUSCO organized a public event “Journee Porte ouverte “at Maendeleo Square as part of the International Day of Peacekeepers on the theme "Protecting Civilians, Protecting Peace". In addition to the military and police personnel, all MONUSCO civilian components, local elected officials, social partners, United Nations system staff took an active part in this event of proximity. Several stands have been installed in this…