Matadi, 13 February 2012 – Seventeen villages around the port city of Matadi, Bas-Congo province, are now opened up thanks to an access road that will allow the rural population of this community to establish mutually beneficial links between the region and the neighbouring areas. The road was inaugurated on 13 February 2012 in Tshimpi, one of the 17 villages, in the presence of the local administrative and traditional authorities, as well as…
Mbuji Mayi, 9 February 2012 - The United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) in Kasaï Oriental organized on 7 February 2012, a day of reflection on the role of social media in the promotion of human rights. The participants, 34 in total, were selected among media professionals and human rights defenders, as well as some provincial authorities, including the Provincial Minister of Communication and Media. This day of reflection is part of…
The Memorial Service in honour of late Cpl Elias KIATTI of Benin, who passed away on 13 Jan 12 at Kalemie after a short illness, was held at MONUSCO HQ in Kinshasa on Saturday 04 February from 09:20 Hrs up to 09:55 Hrs in the presence of the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General (DSRSG) HC, the Deputy Force Commander (DFC) The Benin ambassador also attended the ceremony. Three wreaths were laid by the DSRSG HC, the DFC and the…
Goma, 8 February 2012 - Following the July and August 2010 mass rapes perpetrated by presumed elements of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) against civilian populations in Luvungi, about 40 km from Walikale, Nord Kivu province, that caused thousands of villagers to flee their homes, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), and UN agencies initiated a project to reinstate…
Kananga, 7 February 2012 – The Corrections Unit of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), in collaboration with the provincial Sanitation Department in Kasaï Occidental and other sanitation institutions, launched, Tuesday 31 January 2012, an outreach campaign to raise public awareness about sexually transmittable diseases (STD) and HIV-AIDS for Kananga central prison inmates, in the provincial…
Goma, 19 January 2012 – 17 January 2012, ten years after the eruption of Nyiragongo volcano, the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), in partnership with the Goma Volcano Observatory (OGV in French), organized a conference on volcano risk management at Virunga which has a cross-border dimension. It should be recalled that a support project to OGV's monitoring and surveillance of the Virunga active volcanoes was launched in 2009 and…
Mbuji-Mayi, 29 January 2012 – The Office of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) in Mbuji-Mayi inaugurated a new building for the Prosecutor's Office and the High Court of Tshilenge on Friday, 27 January 2012. The ceremony took place in the presence of Kasaï Oriental provincial authorities, who were the recipients of the new facility. This courthouse comes as a solution to the…
Matadi, 31 January 2012 – The work plan midterm review of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) Civil Affairs Office was conducted from 29 to 31 January 2012 at the Ledya hotel in Matadi, capital of Bas-Congo Province. According to the Chief Civil Affairs Richard Snellen, the objective of this three-day workshop was "to build the capacity of our teams to better work with our…
Mbuji Mayi, 27 January 2012 - The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) Civil Affairs Office organized a two-day meeting with the Provincial Ministry of Interior and the civil society on conflict resolution in Kasaï Oriental. The conflict mapping established in 2010 in the province recorded more than a hundred conflicts. Some of the conflicts date back to more than 20 years. Those…
Kinshasa, 1 February 2012 – On 31 January 2012 in Kinshasa, the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), through its Office of Public Information, organized an information and awareness-raising session on its mandate. The objective of the meeting was to promote the understanding of the Mission's mandate and to contribute to its outreach among the Congolese population. About a hundred…