On 19 September, MONUSCO security assessment Mission visited Samboko-Chani-chani, an armed groups-invaded district, located roughly 60 km north-west of Beni, along the Beni-Eringeti road section, in North Kivu. The delegation was comprised of representatives from different MONUSCO civilian sections as well as members of MONUSCO Police (UNPOL), Congolese army (FARDC) and the Deputy-Administrator of the Beni territory. The delegation got to Samboko…
The MONUSCO Corrections Unit and the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) have enabled 350 prisoners and detainees at Mulunge Central Prison in Uvira to exercise “their right to access health care ". It is thanks to the advocacy conducted by MONUSCO that “Aide Médicale Congo (AMC), a Congolese national NGO, has provided medical consultations and treatment for these inmates. This activity took place from 02 to 04 September 2019 in the…
A new four-day general intelligence training session opened on Monday 09 September 2019 at the Mining and Hydrocarbons Police Station in Goma, North Kivu. This training, initiated by the Serious and Organized Crime Support Unit (SOCSU), involves 23 participants (officers and non-officers) of the Congolese National Police (PNC). This training is undertaken in the context of capacity-building for the PNC, said the representative of the MONUSCO…
A dozen elements of the Senegalese Formed Police Unit (SENFPU2) were on a joint daytime patrol on Sunday, September 8, 2019, across the municipalities of Gombe, Kintambo, Kasa-Vubu, Lingwala, Limete, Barumbu along some of the city’s arteries and avenues. On this occasion, the MONUSCO police interacted with young people from the "Monitoring Committee for the actions of the Head of State" gathering in “Place des evolués”, in Gombe, as part of an…
Thirty-seven (37) prison staff members, including 17 women, of the Central Prison of Kananga on Monday, September 9, 2019, received training on maintaining order in the prison environment. The training course, which lasted 21 days, was financially supported by the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The Kananga Central Prison managers said this…
Visiting Goma, North Kivu, this Sunday, September 1, 2019, UN Secretary-General António Guterres had an exchange with National Assembly members of the Nord Kivu Caucus on security issues and the eradication of the Ebola virus disease in the province. For more than thirty minutes, the 12 members of the North Kivu Caucus spoke with the UN chief on the phenomenon linked to the ADF armed group and its attendant train of miseries. They particularly…
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited Mangina this Sunday, September 1, 2019, as part of a 72-hour visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In Mangina, North Kivu, groups of children playing around rammed houses; stalls are open at every corner of streets. In eastern DR Congo, in the very heart of the village where the Ebola virus disease was declared on August 1, 2018, life is going on as if nothing had happened. Yet it…
On the 2nd day of his visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday, September 1, 2019, visited the Ebola Treatment Center in Mangina, a rural municipality in Beni territory, North-Kivu province, where the first cases of Ebola had been detected a year ago. At the end of the visit, the UN chief, speaking to the press, said an appropriate multi-pronged response was needed to end the epidemic. For the…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres arrived on Sunday, September 1, 2019 in Beni, North Kivu on a three-day visit to the DRC. UNSG paid tribute to all fallen UN troops for the cause of peace in the DRC. In front of the memorial erected at the Tanzanian contingent's base in Mavivi, prepared for the fallen peacekeepers who served in the MONUSCO Intervention Brigade could easily be read the names of all the "martyrs of peace”: 22 Tanzanians, 12…
"MONUSCO has a very important role to play in the DRC," UN Secretary-General said on 1 September 2019, the second day of his visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo, speaking on the future of the peacekeeping mission. From the rural community of Mangina, in Beni territory, North Kivu province, where he visited the Ebola Treatment Center on Sunday, António Guterres said he was looking to the Security Council for the renewal of MONUSCO mandate…