Jean-Tobie Okala General Evariste Kakule Somo, Governor of North Kivu Province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, was the first to speak on May 28, 2025, in Beni — the provisional provincial capital — on the eve of the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, celebrated annually on May 29. Indeed, May 29 marks the International Day of UN Peacekeepers: an occasion dedicated to honoring the commitment, courage, and sacrifice…
Jean-Tobie Okala After a building under construction collapsed in the Bankoko neighborhood in Bunia, Nepalese, Indonesian, Senegalese, and Bangladeshi peacekeepers, along with MONUSCO police officers are working alongside rescue teams to find survivors. At least three people have been confirmed dead, and eight others have been rescued. According to local sources, a four-story building under construction collapsed around 2 p.m. on Thursday, May 22…
Jean-Tobie Okala In Ituri Province, MONUSCO launched construction work on May 22, 2025, for a new training facility dedicated to military justice actors. The building will be located within the premises of the Ituri Superior Military Prosecutor’s Office in Bunia. The project responds to a request from the Senior Military Prosecutor, who expressed the need for a dedicated space to enhance the technical and professional skills of judicial personnel…
Joël Bofengo and Jorkim Jotham Pituwa “ All communities gather here. ” Christine Gbosi has been selling goods at the Dzudda market for several years. Her face beams despite the sweltering heat, because she can once again carry out the sole activity that provides her financial support. Like many others markets in Ituri, Dzudda market closes whenever violence erupts. These closures divide communities. In order to break this cycle, MONUSCO has…
Didier Vignon Dossou-Gbakon On Friday, 16 May, forty-two Congolese soldiers completed a two-week intensive training on the use of mortars in Bunia, Ituri province. The training, delivered by Indonesian, Moroccan, Nepali, and Bangladeshi MONUSCO peacekeepers, aimed to enhance the operational capabilities of the Congolese army to fight against armed groups responsible for massacres in the province. The training took place from 28 April to 16 May…
Jean-Tobie Okala Young people from Tsere, a locality in Ituri, have harvested over two tons of watermelons as part of an agricultural project launched by Indonesian peacekeepers of MONUSCO. Initiated three months ago, this community-based initiative targets residents from a region affected by insecurity, located about a dozen kilometers from Bunia, the provincial capital. The goal is to replace weapons with farming tools by promoting a profitable…
Jean-Tobie Okala From 5 to 10 May, in the territory of Irumu, MONUSCO’s Civil Affairs Section, in collaboration with the General Inspection of Territorial Administration and the Provincial Youth Council of Ituri, organized two workshops to encourage youth participation in the province’s peacebuilding process. The first three-day workshop took place in Komanda, 75 km southwest of Bunia, and the second, also three days long, in Mungamba-centre…
Kinshasa, 15 May 2025 – The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) announces the conclusion of the transfer operation of over 1,300 unarmed members of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) and the Congolese National Police (PNC). This operation was carried out in close coordination with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), acting as a neutral…
Kinshasa, 14 May 2025 – The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) deeply regrets to announce the loss of two of its personnel following a serious road accident that occurred on 13 May 2025. The accident took place approximately 13 kilometers south of Kitchanga, in North Kivu Province, as a MONUSCO logistics convoy was en route from Munigi to the Permanent Operating Base (POB) in…
Didier Vignon Dossou-Gbakon " We are now capable of saving lives." It is with emotion and pride that Vital Ubemu, a young resident of Bunia city in Ituri, expresses himself at the end of a two-and-a-half-month first aid training, provided at the Ndoromo military camp by the Bangladeshi contingent of MONUSCO. Thirty young people, including thirteen girls, from diIerent neighborhoods of the city, received their first aid certificates Wednesday, May…