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…
On 28 November 2011, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) held its second presidential and parliamentary elections since the end of the Transition Period in 2006. These elections, intended to be calm, transparent and illustrative of the country’s democratic progress, took place in an atmosphere of high tension, interspersed with acts of political intolerance and violence that claimed many lives. Between the 29 November 2011 and 20 January…
Uvira, 23 April 2012 - The United Nations Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) turned over an elementary school named Maendeleo to the delegate of the students' parents in Kiliba, territory of Uvira, in an official ceremony. Roughly $ 18,000 were contributed by MONUSCO Quick Impact Project to complete the project placed under the supervision of its child protection section office in Uvira and a Non-Government…
Matadi, 18 May 2012 - On the night of 17 to 18 May, 24 inmates escaped from Tshela prison, 210 km west of Matadi, the capital of Bas-Congo province. Earlier in the week, on 16 May, detainees refused to return to their dorms, a gesture meant to express their anger with the lack of food in the prison. The situation has now returned to normal after the intervention of the Congolese National Police (PNC) and elements of the National Armed Forces…
Kisangani – 25 May 2012 – The United Nations Police (UNPOL) held, on 24 May 2012, a day-long training workshop for some 32 Congolese National Police (officers) to strengthen their ability to better protect civilian populations. Organized around the theme of "Collaboration between UNPOL and PNC for population protection", the workshop aimed at building in these police officers a sense of what is appropriate behaviour in dealing with the population…