Bukavu 11 Nov. 2015
Mr. Josiah OBAT, Head of Office, Goma, North Kivu Office & Ms. Jamila Seftaoui, Senior Gender Adviser (Goma 30 Oct. 2015)
Goma, 1 December, 2015 — The people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) joined the rest of the world to commemorate the 2015 World AIDS Day on Tuesday, 1 December, 2015 under the global theme, “Ending the AIDS Epidemic as Parts of Sustainable Development Goals”. At the national level, the commemoration was held under the theme “More Commitments and more resources to end AIDS epidemic by 2030”. The commemorative speeches on this occasion…
Bukavu, 24 November 2015: The United Nations Joint Human Rights Office in collaboration with the Bukavu lawyers’ bar and the Group of the Rule of Law/Sexual Violence experts organized on 24 November 2015, a workshop on Lawyers’ role and good practices in the judiciary assistance and the protection of the victims and witnesses of sexual violence, for about twenty lawyers in the South Kivu province,. Mamadou S. Diallo, the Joint Human Rights Office…
Kisangani, 27 November 2015 – With logistic and technical supports from MONUSCO Justice Correction unit, the high courts of Kisangani and Yangambi, Tshopo province organized mobile courts hearings, starting 19 November 2015 in the prison court of Kisangani. The mobile court hearings would help to markedly reduce the prison population in Kisangani, built to accommodate six hundreds inmates only; unfortunately this number is now exceeded; it is…
Maman S. Sidikou, Head of MONUSCO, strongly condemns the ADF attacks against civilians, FARDC and MONUSCO bases in Makembi and Eringeti Kinshasa, 30 November 2015 – The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for the Democratic republic of the Congo (DRC) and Head of MONUSCO, Mr. Maman S. Sidikou has stated that the United Nations “strongly condemns the cowardly, systematic and criminal attacks perpetrated by the Allied…
Beni, 26 November 2015: French Ambassador to the DRC, Alain Remy, paid a working visit to Beni/ North-Kivu province, on 26 November 2015, to enquire about the security situation in that area. Upon his arrival in Beni, Alain Remy respectively met with MONUSCO and local government officials. “ I heard lot of talks in Kinshasa about the security issue and I was keen to meet with Beni and MONUSCO senior officials, to have first-hand information in…
Dungu, 25 November 2015: the Office of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) through its Human Rights Section and partners officially launched on Tuesday 25 November 2015, a 16-day activism against violence to women; in attendance, the representative of the Territorial Administrator; the chief of MONUSCO/Dungu office, Leonidas Nkingiye and several civilian and military staff. The Representative of…