Addis Ababa, 9th November, 2017: The African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security Smail Chergui, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region, Said Djinnit, and the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Head of MONUSCO, Maman Sidikou, met on 9 November in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to review the political and security situation in Burundi, the Central…
Addis Ababa, 7 November 2017: The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union, Moussa Faki Mahamat, notes with satisfaction the publication by the Independent National Electoral Commission of the Democratic Republic of the Congo of the electoral calendar for the combined Presidential, Legislative and Provincial elections, now scheduled for 23 December 2018. He recalls that the African Union has consistently called for the timely…
7 November 2017 – Reiterating the need to bring to justice the killers of two United Nations expert in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Security Council urged the country’s authorities to continue to cooperate with investigations into the incident. The experts, Michael Sharp of the United States and Zaida Catalan of Sweden were abducted in the country on 12 March. Their remains were found outside the city of Kananga in the DRC’s Kasaï…
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Kim Bolduc of Canada as his Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), where she will also serve as United Nations Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Ms. Bolduc succeeds Mamadou Diallo of…
Durant le mois de septembre 2017, le BCNUDH a documenté 644 violations des droits de l’homme sur l’ensemble du territoire de la RDC, soit une augmentation de 46% par rapport au mois d’août 2017, au cours duquel 441 violations avaient été documentées. Les agents de l’Etat ont commis 374 violations – soit 58% des violations documentées et un tiers de plus par rapport au mois précédent – et ont notamment été responsables de l’exécution…
KINSHASA – 23 October 2017 - The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) condemns the arrest of many members of the Rassemblement des forces politiques et sociales de la République démocratique du Congo acquises au changement by Congolese defense and security forces yesterday in Lubumbashi, in the province of Haut-Katanga. The members of the Rassemblement were attending a private meeting…
Uvira, South-Kivu - Monday, 16th October 2017: To update the population on MONUSCO’s stabilization efforts in line with its mandate, Public Information office organized an informative visit for about twenty journalists to Bukavu and Uvira to receive first-hand information about the ex-combatants’ reintegration project. They were delighted to note the impact of the project through the contacts they had with beneficiaries on the ground. Kala…
GENEVA (16 October 2017) – The world’s poor are at disproportionate risk of torture, arrest, early death and domestic violence, but their civil and political rights are being airbrushed out of the picture, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty Philip Alston has warned in a hard-hitting statement to mark International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on 17 October. Even human rights groups are failing to draw the link between civil and…
11 October 2017 – The notion that elections would most probably not be held before the end of 2017 has regrettably led to the re-emergence of a climate of political uncertainty and tensions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a United Nations envoy for that country told the Security Council today. “As this Council is aware, challenges related to the implementation of the 31 December Agreement have unfortunately persisted in recent…
The Special Representative of the Secretary General and Head of the United Nations Mission in the DR Congo - Monusco Maman S. Sidikou, briefed the UN Security Council this morning on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mr. Sidikou noted that discussions have centred around the notion that elections would most probably not be held before the end of 2017 as foreseen in the political agreement of 31 December 2016 and this has led…