This report presents the findings of the investigations undertaken by the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) into the mass rapes and other human rights violations committed during the attacks on 13 villages along the Kibu-Mpofi axis in Walikale territory, North Kivu, between 30 July and 2 August 2010. As a result of its investigations, the UNJHRO is able to conclude that at least 387 civilians, including 300 women, 23 men, 55 girls…
Photo: MONUSCO/RSA Goma, 5 October 2011 - Two attacks on civilians by unidentified armed men took place in the Masisi territory, Nord-Kivu province, on 30 September. The first one occurred in the village of Kitchanga, 80 km north-west of Goma, and the second in the village of Karto on the road between Mweso and Kitshanga. Alerted to these incidents, the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO…
Photo: MONUSCO Kisangani, 4 October 2011 - A two-day symposium to sensitize political parties and stakeholders on the need for peaceful elections in Province Orientale was organized by the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), in cooperation with the provincial office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The symposium, which opened on 4 September in the provincial capital Kisangani…
Maj Jaidev Singh Guleria (India) who passed away in an unfortunate road accident on 07 Oct 2011 joined MONUSCO as MILOB on 10 Nov 2010. The officer served as MILOB at Team Site Masisi in North Kivu Bde for seven months prior to his present appointment as SO MOVCON, Kinshasa. DETAILS OF MAJ JAIDEV SINGH GULERIA Ser No Details Remarks 1. IC No, Rank and Name IC-64992H Maj Jaidev Singh Guleria 2. Regt/Corps Artillery 3. Status in Msn MILOB 4. Date…
Photo: Bilamekaso Tchagbele/MONUSCO Bunia, 30 September 2011 – In a joint effort to help achieve peaceful elections in the Ituri district, the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) organized a two-day workshop beginning on 28 September. The…
Photo: MONUSCO Goma, 5 October 2011 - Brigadier-General, Harinder Singh, an infantry officer, arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to take over the command of Nord Kivu Brigade on 3 October 2011. His predecessor, General Chandi Prasad Mohanty, left the country three days later after more than a year of service with the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO). Brigadier-Genereal…
Photo: MONUSCO Kinshasa, 5 October 2011 – The soft spoken Brigadier-General Chandi Prasad Mohanty is on his way out of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after more than a year of service in this country with the blue helmets as Commander-in-Chief of the Nord Kivu Brigade. Ge.l Mohanty vividly remembers he date he landed in the DRC. "1st September 2010," he simply said. Since that date, he took control of the Nord Kivu province, eastern DRC…
Photo: Sylvain Liechti/MONUSCO Lieutenant-General Babakar Gaye, Military Advisor to the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, visited the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from 25 to 30 September, to meet with peacekeepers of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO). In the following interview given to MONUSCO's Radio Okapi, General Gaye tells us what his visit was about. Radio Okapi: General…
Photo: Maj Ramesh Gurung/MONUSCO Beni, 30 September 2011 – Peacekeepers of the 15th Nepalese Battalion awarded seven students their graduation certificates at a ceremony organized in Beni, Nord Kivu province, on 28 September. The graduation comes as the crowning of nine months of training in English literature and computer science at the Vocational Training Centre/Peace and Development (VTC/PD) set by the Nepalese Peacekeepers of the United…
Photo: Moussa Demba Diallo/ MONUSCO Beni, 19 September 2011 – For two days, starting on 13 September 2011, a joint UN team visited the localities of Isale and Bulambo, Nord-Kivu province, Eastern DRC to verify allegations that the villagers had fled their farms following clashes between elements of the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) and unidentified armed men. The team made of experts from the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the…