Goma, 14 August 2013 - Following requests from several local and foreign media, Tanzanian and South African Special Forces of the Force Intervention Brigade (FIB) of MONUSCO displayed a show of force during a training exercise to demonstrate their ability to cope with any assaults coming from rebel groups. The journalists were also able to witness the way in which the FIB conducts daily patrols in the area between Sake and Moja in North Kivu…
Kinshasa, 13 August 2013 – Martin Kobler arrived today at the Headquarters of the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) to assume his duties as the Special Representative for the United Nations Secretary-General in this country. He was welcomed by the Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and Humanitarian Coordinator, Moustapha Soumaré, who had been acting as the Head of MONUSCO…
Mbandaka, 29 July 2013 – The Electoral Section of MONUSCO on 25 July 2013 held a meeting in Mbandaka with women leaders from across Equateur province, to help them prepare themselves for the future provincial, municipal and local elections. The meeting aimed to encourage a greater number of women to be candidates for the future polls. The women at the meeting stated their determination to play an active role in ensuring women's mass and effective…
Bunia, 30 July 2013 - On 29 July 2013, the regional director of MONUSCO inaugurated the new air traffic control equipment provided by the UN mission for the international airport in the district's capital, Bunia. In the presence of the national director of the Civilian Aviation Authority (RVA) operations, he also formally handed over to the airport authorities the finished runway lighting and marking project carried out by MONUSCO in partnership…
Mbuji-Mayi, 2 August 2013 – In Mbuji-Mayi, the provincial capital of Eastern Kasai, the MONUSCO police force (UNPOL) launches a new month-long campaign to raise public awareness of the importance of the Congolese National Police (PNC) working in partnership with the population. Twice a week for one month, UNPOL elements will be meeting with heads of neighborhoods and streets of the town to see if and make sure that the mechanisms put in place to…
Goma, 03 Augiust 2013 - As part of its Quick Impact Projects programme, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO) on 30 July donated a batch of medical equipment items to the "Charite maternelle" hospital in Goma for the neonatal ward. Worth US$ 25,000, the batch of medical equipment items -, consisting of a newborn incubator, neonatal reanimation and warming tables, lamps for phototherapy, a resuscitation pack, an…
Bunia, 03 August 2013 – The United Nations Joint Human Rights Office organized from 30 through 31 July 2013 in Bunia a capacity-building workshop for human rights activists in the district of Ituri. About twenty people including four women took part in the training on the professional ethics that guide human right activities. Participants had the opportunity to further their knowledge on the safe interview techniques for the victims and upgrade…
Goma, 1 August 2013 – The MONUSCO Force Commander General Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz told journalists in Goma on Thursday that the measure establishing a security zone in the Goma-Sake area aims to protect over one million people living in the area. In a press briefing held a few hours before the expiration of MONUSCO's 48-hour ultimatum for any armed groups or individuals in the security zone to disarm voluntarily, he said the measure allows…
Goma, 31 July 2013 - 33 Indian peacekeepers of North-Kivu Brigade have been undergoing 10-day training on the maintenance and restoration of law and order since Monday 29 July. The training has received technical support from MONUSCO Police in Goma. As part of the North-Kivu Brigades' capacity-building, MONUSCO Police/GOMA has, for the first time, organized in the North-Kivu province two trainings on the maintenance and restoration of order (MROP…
Goma, 31 July 2013 - Speaking to Radio Okapi and international media journalists in Goma, eastern DR Congo on 25 July 2013, Brigadier General James MWAKILOBWA, Commander of the MONUSCO Force Intervention Brigade (FIB) said the FIB was already at work though not yet fully operational. Taking place at MONUSCO regional headquarters in Goma, this was the general's first encounter with the press, and the international media represented included the…