As part of its Community Violence Reduction (CVR) projects, MONUSCO has handed over to local authorities two agricultural feeder roads and three bridges located in the villqge groupings of Zadu and Baviba, 60 kilometers from Bunia, the capital of Ituri Province. To build these infrastructures, MONUSCO called on a local workforce of some 1,500 at-risk youth, including ex-combatants and community members. The first road, located in the villqge…
MONUSCO and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), in collaboration with the High Military Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo, organised a workshop from 14 to 15 July 2021 in Bunia to take stock of the provincial strategy for prioritising the prosecution of crimes against the peace and security of humanity in Ituri. Twenty-three participants, including two women, took part in this two-day reflection, which made it possible to…
To fight the consumption and trafficking of illicit substances in the central prison of Makala, in Kinshasa, the field team of MONUSCO Correction Administration Support Unit organized two awareness-raising sessions for five members of this prison staff, including one woman. Eighteen minor in-mates, including six girls, also attended this awareness session organized in collaboration with the association of the Congolese social workers as part of…
The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Bintou Keita, paid a working visit to South Kivu from June 30 to July 2. During this visit which took her to the interior of the province, she met, among others, with representatives of the displaced persons in the Hauts Plateaux, South of the province, in addition to inaugurating some quick impact projects. Accompanied by the Congolese…
With funding from MONUSCO to the tune of $132,000, one hundred and four solar panels have been installed in Bunia, Ituri, to fight criminality in this town where acts of burglary and other criminal acts are often reported, due to lack of public lighting. First on the Kopox-Grand Marché road section, in Lumumba district, in the municipality of Mbunya, where the first fifty-two solar panels were installed by a local company. Fifty-two other signs…
Inmates in Uvira central prison, South Kivu province now have a new source of combustible energy: biogas. With MONUSCO funding, a pilot biogas project was inaugurated in this prison last May. On top of this project, the construction of a bakery, the implementation of a fish farm as well as the renovation of a facility for women. These projects were officially launched by the Deputy Special Representative, in charge of protection and operations…
In response to the violence from armed groups in the Tchabi and Boga areas, roughly 120 km from Bunia, in Irumu territory, Ituri province, Khassim Diagne, Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in DRC, in charge of operations and protection, announced Thursday, June 17, 2021 that the hunt down of ADF will take a new turn with the imminent arrival of additional forces to join MONUSCO Force Intervention Brigade (FIB). “ As you…
During his second visit to Ituri, Wednesday June 16, 2021, almost four months after taking up office, the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in the DRC, in charge of operations and protection, Khassim Diagne, felt that the “all-military approach” should not be the only option for lasting peace in this region. The deputy head of MONUSCO has called for other approaches, community-based for example, to support military…
During a morning discussions organized in Kinshasa on June 8, 2021 at the Pullman hotel by the United Nations Joint Office for Human Rights (UNJHRO) and the Division of Strategic Communication and Public Information MONUSCO, national parliamentarians, in particular members of the Standing Committee on Human Rights, were urged to fight hate rhetorics. A gloomy diagnosis In his inaugural lecture, the director of UNJHRO, Abdoul Aziz Thioye, noted…
"United Nations peacekeeping operations help to maintain peace in some of the world's most dangerous places." In his broadcast on the occasion of the celebration of the International Day of Peacekeepers, UN Secretary General paid tribute to the women and men who have chosen to devote their lives to "protecting the vulnerable and helping to build peace”. Currently, there are 85,000 civilian, police and military personnel deployed in several…