The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in the DRC, Bintou Keita, assured on Tuesday 21 June 2022 that MONUSCO is withdrawing from Tanganyika province after having accomplished its mission. " Mission accomplished, certainly, insofar as we can responsibly leave and, knowing that there is a continuity of work by the provincial authority, there will be support from the national government. We are not leaving and giving up…
MONUSCO through its head of office in Bukavu, on 16 June, handed over twenty-five (25) desktops, nine (09) laptops, 25 printers, 25 inverters and various accessories to the Congolese National Police. (PNC). The provincial governor, Theo Ngwabidje Kasi, received the equipment in the presence of the provincial police commander, General Jean-Bernard Bazenge. The equipment will be distributed to the police headquarters and to the various police…
June 30, 2022 marks the end of MONUSCO's operations in Tanganyika Province. Although the Mission will maintain a presence in the north of the province, particularly in Nyunzu and Kalemie territories, where there are still pockets of insecurity, in the four territories where the security situation has clearly improved, it will hand over the baton to United Nations agencies, funds and programs. The latter will have to apply the Nexus approach…
The United Nations has long considered the creative imagination, ideals and energy of young people to be essential to the continued development of the peaceful societies in which they live. In that spirit, on May 10, 2022, the MONUSCO Goma Civil Affairs office, in conjunction with the World Bank, through the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development project, traveled to the town of Sake, 25 km northeast of Goma in North Kivu, to visit and…
While on a working visit to Tanganyika province since 17 June 2022, the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in DRC, Humanitarian and Resident Coordinator, Bruno Lemarquis, said that MONUSCO’s withdrawal from Tanganyika province is good news because it reflects an improvement in the security situation. The UN Humanitarian and Resident Coordinator in the DRC is in Kalemie on a MONUSCO leadership mission in the context of the…
" Sorry, hold on, it's just for a line change. Sorry for the interruption of your programme". This little message regularly broadcast on almost all the radio stations in Bunia in Ituri during the endless power failures is now history. At least for five community radio stations in the town that have just been provided with complete solar panel kits by MONUSCO. These are radio stations are the following: Radio Fides, Radio Merveille de Bunia (RMB)…
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, and the United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Alice Nderitu, today expressed deep concern about the impact of the recent upsurge in hostilities between the M23 armed group and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on the local population in eastern DRC. The two senior officials called for an immediate end to all attacks on…
" We, young people, must change our mentality. We must not give in to politicians' whims, as they get us nowhere. Our future depends on it. When you see the worthlessness of a message, you know there is no point in sharing it. We must avoid spreading hate messages". The statement is by Asumani Jeanne Love, president of the youth of Songo district, in the town of Uvira, South Kivu, speaking on June 15, 2022, at the end of an awareness raising…
All records of inmates in Beni's central prison will soon be digitized. To enable the prison staff to properly use these new tools, MONUSCO's Corrections Unit has been holding a three-day training session for them since June 16, 2022. Eric Kikwaya and Kiza Kavira are among the trained staff. The former is a clerk at Beni central prison. He is delighted with the digitization of the prison's records. This makes his work easier. Before, everything…
Twenty or so women farmers were given market garden kits on Friday 10 June 2022 in Nyiragongo, in the Rutshuru territory, by the NGO COFEVAM, with the financial support of the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO). They are among the sixty or so women and young girls who are mothers and survivors of violence in Sake and Nyiragongo who are benefiting from this conflict-related violence resolution (CVR) project. According to MONUSCO's…