Kananga, 15 June 2012 – A newly deployed Formed Police Unit of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) in Kananga, the capital of Kasaï Occidental province, visited on 12 June 2012 a care center named Mpokolo Wa Moy in the district of Katoka, to assist young orphans and persons at a loose end by providing them with a shelter, and helping them reintegrate social life. Led by the chief of…
Bunia, 2 June 2012 – Twenty-five officers and non-commissioned officers of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) underwent five days of training on sexual violence. The training, which started on Thursday, 7 June, also addressed the issues of human rights, child protection, gender, and the military code of conduct. The training, which was organized by the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic…
Kisangani, 13 June 2012 – Thirty magistrates in Kisangani, Province Orientale, attended a training workshop from 12 to 14 June 2012 dealing with conflicts resolution in elections. The training was organized jointly by the Council of the High Court and the Kisangani Court of Appeals, with the support of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) through its Rule of Law section. The aim of…
Kisangani, 13 June 2012 – Kisangani, the provincial capital of Province Orientale hosted on Tuesday, 12 June 2012, a tripartite meeting between the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and the Ugandan People's Defense Forces (UPDF). This meeting was the first to be held on consultations for an evaluation of the operations…
Bunia, 10 June 2012 – A game between two soccer teams of Province Orientale turned violent on 6 June. MONUSCO police promptly intervened to avert the worst. The soccer game between Association sportive Nika (AS Nika) from Kisangani and Cercle sportif Eldorado (CS Eldorado) from Bunia that took place at Amani stadium turned violent when supporters of CS Eldorado violently attacked AS Nika's players to vent their discontent following their team's…
Mbandaka, 2 June 2012 – The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) inaugurated on Peacekeepers Day a water pump at the University hospital of Mbandaka, the capital of the Equateur province. Prior to this project, women were forced to deliver under extremely poor conditions, with all the risks that it entailed. The Quick Impact Project, which is valued at $ 11,600, consisted of digging a…
Kananga, 8 June 2012 – Firefighters from the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) put out a fire that started at a fuel storage facility in a busy area of Kananga, the capital of Kasai Occidental province, on Thursday, 7 June 2012 at about 5: 40 p.m. Immediately after the news reached MONUSCO, a team of firefighters were dispatched to the area of the fire located at the junction of…
Matadi, 6 June 2012 – How best to incorporate the gender concept into the Congolese National Police Force is the theme addressed by a hundred police elements during a workshop held on 6 June by the Gender section of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), in Matadi, the sea port capital of Bas-Congo province. The workshop, whose theme revolved around the incorporation of the Gender concept into the…
Uvira, 12 June 2012 - In Uvira, a small town snaking its way between Lake Tanganyika and the towering mountains of the Great Rift Valley in South Kivu, eighteen colonels, lieutenant colonels, majors and a captain appeared before a mobile court of the DRC military justice system. Thirteen of them were found guilty of rebellion in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). "This trial sent a strong signal across the country that members of…
Bunia, 27 April 2012 – The commander of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) General Chander Prakash presided over a medal award ceremony during which medals were awarded to the Bangladeshi peacekeepers serving in the air force contingent and to the UN military observers based in Ituri. The ceremony took place on Saturday 27 April 2012 in Bunia. Altogether, 365 peacekeepers from different…