Goma, May 23, 2013 - The Disarmament, Demobilization, Repatriation, Reintegration, and Resettlement (DD/RRR) division of the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) initiated early this month a new sensitization strategy aimed at persuading the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord Resistance Army (LRA) in the Orientale Province, to surrender to MONUSCO voluntarily. The concept of the new drive called "Helicopter-Messaging"…
Kisangani, 10 May 2013 – A few years after being launched, the DR Congo's Stabilization and Reconstruction program for areas emerging out of armed conflict (STAREC) – a program buttressed by an international mechanism known as the International Security and Stabilization Support Strategy (ISSSS)- has yet to yield palpable results in Province Orientale. The Joint Technical Committee (CTC), the structure for coordinating this program at the…
Bukavu, 9 April 2013 – In Bukavu, Sud Kivu, the Public Information Office of the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) organized, on 4 April 2013, a one-day training workshop for journalists from across the province to empower and enable them to properly cover sexual violence issues in a conflict or post-conflict setting. More than 30 journalists hailing from Bukavu and the territories of Walungu, Mwenga, Shabunda…
Mbandaka, 11 April 2013 – From 8 to 10 April 2013, the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), in collaboration with the Project to Support Decentralization and Local Development (PADDL) which is supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), held in Gbadolite a capacity-building workshop for officers of decentralized territorial entities and civil society actors of the…
Goma, 20 May 2013 – A hundred diggers and villagers were buried following deadly landslide Thursday 16 May 2013 in a mining zone in Masisi. The accident happened six kilometers from Rubaya, a locality situated between Koyi and Nvuguto, an area with highly steep hills, accessible only on foot. MONUSCO team, United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo travelled to the scene of the tragedy to assess the…
Kisangani, 17 May 2013 – The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) and several partners wound up a nine-day capacity-building training in Kisangani, administrative capital of province Orientale on 16 May 2013. The training was aimed at enhancing prison staff capacity and reviving registrar's service for the detention centers known as "prison centrale and camp de haute détention d'Osio"…
Bukavu, 9 May 2013 – The United Nations Mine Action Coordination Center organized weapons demolition operation on 9 April 2013 in Bukavu, the capital city of the South Kivu province in collaboration with the Disarmament, Demobilization, Repatriation, Reintegration and Resettlement section (DDRRR) of the United Nations Mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO) to destroy the weapons collected from the ex-combatants and armed groups from different parts of…
Kinshasa, 23 May 2013 – During his joint visit to Kinshasa on 22 May 2013 with the President of the World Bank Group, the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon said he would convene a meeting in May 2013 to review the progress made thus far by the Framework-Agreement for Peace, Security and Cooperation in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Region. "I will convene a meeting on 26 May to review the status of the implementation of the…
Kinshasa, 23 May 2013 – The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon arrived this Thursday morning in the Nord Kivu province from Kinshasa as part of a joint mission to the sub-region with the President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim. The purpose of the visit is to back the implementation of the Framework Agreement signed at Addis-Ababa on 24 February by the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Uganda as well as eight other countries…
Kinshasa, 22 May 2013 - The United Nations Stabilization Mission in DR Congo (MONUSCO) announces that the Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, has started this morning his official visit to the DRC. This visit should be seen in the context of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and the Region. The visit to the DRC is part of a regional tour with visits also to Rwanda and Uganda, as well as Ethiopia, where the Secretary-General…