Kisangani, 31 octobre 2014 – The head of MONUSCO Public Information section in Kisangani, the Eastern Province held a working meeting with the new UNPC team in the Eastern Province. The meeting was held at the Hall Ghislaine Dupont, situated on Avenue des Cocotiers, Kisangani. The agenda of the meeting included the following items: upgrading partnership between MONUSCO and UNPC through information sharing, training workshops, refresher courses…
Kinshasa, 2 November 2014 – MONUSCO GHANBATT/Cotex site was chosen to host UN CARES activities aimed to reduce HIV/AIDs in the UN work environment, in support of the universal access to a range of advantages including prevention, cares and support to the entire UN staff and their families. Over 250 young children, teenagers and parents, in convivial mood and in a bright sunshine, met at MONUSCO GHANBATT/Cotex, to respond to the invitation of the…
MONUSCO in South Kivu held, from 28 to 29 October 2014, a refresher training workshop for 35 journalists from across the province. The workshop was designed to strengthen the journalists’ ability to communicate information dispassionately without distorting the facts, and to enable them to revisit the principles that direct their profession. And that is, seeking and reporting the truth with rigor, accuracy, integrity, fairness and accountability…
On 20 October, 3 Operation (OPS)/Quality Assurance (QA) officers from UNMAS DRC has started providing the 10 day ‘Arms Search’ training course to two ‘34 MR Military of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC)’teams, each consisting of 6 soldiers at Goma in North Kivu. The North Kivu governor announced FARDC would launch the operation entitled ‘Masisi Sans Armes (Weapons Free Masisi)’before the early November, and as part of the operation…
The UN Day was celebrated by MONUSCO Friday, October 24, 2014 in Kinshasa and the Provinces. Please find below the slideshow of this celebration.
Martin Kobler, Head of MONUSCO, appeals for peace consolidation in the DRC Kinshasa, 23 October 2014 – Martin Kobler, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in the DRC, calls on “Congolese people to own the United Nations Charter in order to practice tolerance, to live in peace with one another, in a spirit of good neighborliness, and to join forces with the United Nations to maintain peace and international security.” The…
The Secretary-General condemns the decision of the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to expel from the country Mr. Scott Campbell, Director of the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office. He is also deeply concerned by recent threats against other staff of the Joint Office, in connection with their human rights work.The Secretary-General recalls that the Congolese people have suffered grave human rights violations, which…
Martin Kobler, Head of MONUSCO, calls for decisive joint military actions to neutralize the ADF Kinshasa 18 October 2014 – Martin Kobler, Head of MONUSCO, calls for “decisive joint military actions of FARDC and MONUSCO to start as soon as possible in order to relieve the population from the terror imposed by the ADF, once and for all”. Martin Kobler, Head of MONUSCO, calls for “decisive joint military actions of FARDC and MONUSCO to start as soon…
Martin Kobler, Head of MONUSCO, profoundly concerned at the request of DRC Government calling for the departure of Scott Campbell ã Kinshasa, 18 October 2014 – Martin Kobler, Head of MONUSCO, is deeply disturbed by the request of the DRC government, calling for the departure of Scott Campbell, the chief of the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) and calls upon the government to reconsider its decision. “I express my full…
Martin Kobler, Head of MONUSCO, is in Beni to express his support to the families of the victims of the massacres perpetrated by ADF Beni, 17 October 2014 – Martin Kobler, Head of MONUSCO, paid homage to the victims of the Beni attacks, bowing in front of the mortal remains of the villagers killed during the night of 15 to 16 October in Ngadi and Kadu, near Beni, North-Kivu province. During the ceremony, Martin Kobler met with the families of the…