Goma International airport was jammed to capacity with over 30.000 spectators in a mega concert organized by the Peace One Day foundation in commemoration of the International Peace Day on the 21of September 2014. The concert was animated by United Nation Ambassador for Peace , multiple Grammy awards winner and musician Akon accompanied by Congolese musicians/celebrities amongst them Lexxus Legal, Dety Darba, humorists and traditional dances. For…
A Peace Rally was organized this Sunday 21 September in Kinshasa by MONUSCO with the help of the DRC Civil Society Consultation Framework to mark the International Peace Day. Three groups from different sites heading for the same destination Carrefour des Evolués carried torches of peace. At the Place des Evolués, participants were treated to very excellent musical performance given by MONUSCO choir and Kenge folk music. Speeches were…
School children of the DRC participating in the video conference organized by UN today applauded the initiative and thanked MONUSCO for their substantial contribution to peace in the DRC; which will save many lives and give a chance to the country to develop. They said children are the first victims of wars in so far as they are deprived of their right to go school; instead, they are used as child soldiers and sustain all kinds of abuses. In a…
Kinshasa, 15 September 2014: On Sunday 21 September, the whole world will celebrate the International Day of Peace. This year’s theme focuses on “The Right of Peoples to Peace”Several activities will be organized around the world, including concerts in large and small towns, in conflict areas and peaceful regions, so that each one can put forward this fundamental lesson and celebrate the value of human diversity and unity which is our strength…
MONUSCO Force Commander, Lt General Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz, on 15 September 2014 inaugurated a concrete culvert constructed by MONUSCO in Mushake on the road connecting Sake to Masisi in North Kivu province. Construction of the culvert was carried out by elements of the engineering unit of the MONUSCO Force Bangladeshi contingent at an estimated cost of 121 thousand US dollars. In his remarks at this inauguration ceremony, the Force…
Kinshasa, 15 September 2014: On Sunday 21 September, the whole world will celebrate the International Peace Day . This year’s theme focuses on “The Right of Peoples to Peace”. Several activities will be organized around the world, including concerts in large and small towns, in conflict areas and peaceful regions, so that each one can put forward this fundamental lesson and celebrate the value of human diversity and unity which is our strength…
Goma, 3 September 2014 - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, Martin Kobler, accompanied by the North-Kivu head of office Ray Torres inspected the weapons and rounds of ammunition recovered by the Indian Battalion in North-Kivu. Between May and August 2014, the Indian Battalion in North-Kivu found arms caches including 258 weapons and ammunitions found in Rumangabo, Tshanzu and Katale, the territory of Rutshuru with the help of…
MONUSCO Security Sector Reform section organized between 26 and 29 August, in Kinshasa, a 4-day operational capacity-building workshop for the Congolese National Police Inspection personnel. Twenty senior police members received basic courses on Excel and Power Point at Utex II compound.The aim of the training was to explore the means and ways to improve the mechanism for civilians’ protection through the use of a better communication tool…
Goma, 22 August 2014 – The Special Representative of United Nations Secretary-General in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Martin Kobler, on an evaluation tour of “Islands of Stability” in the eastern North Kivu province, visited the towns of Rutshuru and Kiwanja in Rutshuru territory on 20 August 2014. The head of MONUSCO was accompanied by Abdallah Wafi, Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary- General in charge of Operations in…
Himbi, 15 th August 2014 - A Medal Parade in commemoration of 68th Independence Day of Republic of India was organized at the Indian Battalion base at Himbi near Goma on 15 th August 2014In a two hour long program, the parade was led by Captain Hitesh of INDBATT I and reviewed by MONUSCO Force Commander Lieutenant General Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz. In his massage during the occasion North Kivu Commander Brigadier General AK Samantara…