Eight hundred (800) South African National Defense Force members, including 100 female soldiers, were issued with the United Nations Medals after 12-month service within the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Congo (MONUSCO), as part of the Mission’s Force Intervention Brigade (FIB). A Parade Ceremony was held on the July 1, 2020, near Beni Airport in Mavivi, North Kivu province in Eastern DRC; it was graced by the presence of the Battle…
The United Nations police (UNPOL) sector serving within MONUSCO in Kananga, Kasaï-Central province, organized with its partners, a brainstorming workshop around the coordination of the responses in the context of the fight against gender-based violence (GBV). The urban coordinator of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) in Kananga has justified the holding of this workshop by the fact that "a good number of actors in the fight against GBV…
The laying of the foundation stone for the construction of a health clinic for the Congolese National Police (PNC) in Tanganyika took place on Wednesday July 1, 2020 in Kalemie, Tanganyika province. It is Mr. Houmed Ibrahim Mohamed, the deputy Chief of MONUSCO Police Sector (UNPOL) in charge of Operations, representing the Head of MONUSCO Kalemie office as well as the UNPOL Sector Chief, who laid the first stone for this Quick Impact Project (QIP…
The Civil society in Bahema-Nord, Djugu Territory, Ituri province, has welcomed MONUSCO’s action which helped to restore calm in this entity located approximately 73 kilometres from Bunia, east of the DRC. The head of this structure, Charité Banza, who spoke on the UN radio Radio Okapi in Bunia on Thursday, July 2, 2020, declared that thanks to the intensified MONUSCO peacekeepers’ patrols, the populations of the locality of Roe and its…
MONUSCO paid tribute to Sergeant Major Wahyudi Rama from the Indonesian contingent, killed on June 22, in an attack by armed men not far from the Semuliki bridge, on the road to Beni-Kasindi, the territory of Beni, North Kivu province. The tribute ceremony was organized on Saturday, June 27, at Beni airport, in the presence of both civilian and military officials of the UN Mission in DRC. MONUSCO Force Commander, Lieutenant-General Augusto…
It took three weeks for the MONUSCO Nepalese military engineers to refurbish the Kolomani bridge on the road from Bunia to Mongbwalu in the territory of Djugu, Ituri province. The official handover of this work to the provincial authorities took place on June 18, 2020 in Bunia. It cost more than 60 thousand US dollars. 34 meter-long and 4 meter-wide, the bridge, built over twenty years ago and whose advanced state of dilapidation constituted a…
To build and strengthen trust between local actors and the Congolese National Police in the protection of civilians, MONUSCO facilitated, on June 15, a meeting between the social partners and the Congolese National Police ( PNC) senior officers in Kalemie, Tanganyika province. Besides the Congolese National Police officers, 16 Chiefs of districts including one (1) woman, representing the three communes of the city of Kalemie took part in the…
Altogether, twenty people participated in a workshop held for members of the Joint Technical Working Group (GTTC) on the implementation mechanism for the Action Plan on child protection in the Ituri province, from Thursday, June 11, 2020 to Friday, June 12, at MONUSCO Conference Room in Bunia. The Provincial Commissioner for Gender, Family and Children, also Coordinator of the GTTC, the different security services (FARDC, PNC and ANR) and state…
MONUSCO Office of Strategic Communication and Public Information organized an awareness-raising activity on COVID-19 on June 12, 2020 for 20 journalists from Beni and Butembo, in the North Kivu province. The activity took place at MONUSCO base in Madiba, Boikene, in partnership with the WHO field Coordination in Beni. When launching the activity, the chief of MONUSCO office in Beni, Josiah Obat, who is also a journalist by profession, stressed…
A few days ago, Omar Aboud, chief of MONUSCO/Goma office visited Munigi, one of the six demobilization camps in North Kivu run by the DDR / RR section. Munigi camp is a short distance away from Northern Goma, along the road leading to Butembo. The camp was set up in 2014 when, for security reasons, it was moved from the Goma-based site to the shore of the Lake Kivu. The six camps run by MONUSCO civil-military teams are located in Kanyabayonga…