Several cases of human rights violations have been reported in Ituri since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic-related health crisis. As part of the protection of the individual freedoms, the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office of MONUSCO in Bunia has been holding since Wednesday, July 22, 2020 a three-day workshop to popularize the guiding principles of human rights in this respect. Politico-administrative, security, judicial and health…
The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) learned with great sadness of the passing away of the leader of the Kinshasa United Nations Police (UNPOL) sector, Police chief Superintendent Yaou Diaouga. He died of a heart attack on Friday 17, 2020, after attending the morning working meeting. The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and Head of MONUSCO, Leila…
To ease crowding in the Tshikapa prisons and strengthen the rule of law, MONUSCO provided technical and financial support to the military court of the former Kasai-Occidental province for the purpose of organizing mobile court hearings in Tshikapa from July 10 to 18. At the end of the hearings, the Court handed down ten judgments, including one death sentence against three soldiers convicted of murder. It should be recalled that although death…
At a stone's throw from the city-center of Goma, a garden of around 300 square meters shelters a few flower beds, namely germiners for vegetable plants. It is in the Lac Vert district where the Association UVDI (Union of Volunteers for Integral Development), whose headquarters is located in Kiwanja, Rutshuru territory, decided to launch their new green project entitled “A vegetable growing garden for every household”. Several weeks ago, Pélagie…
To back the provincial government’s efforts to fitht the coronavirus disease, MONUSCO donated equipment and materials to the South-Kivu provincial government on July 17, 2020. The donated equipment and materials were received by Governor Théo Ngwabidje. The donation ceremony was organized in Bukavu, in the presence of the provincial government officials, MONUSCO representatives, including David Gressly, the Deputy Special Representative of the UN…
MONUSCO Civil Affairs delegation, led by its Deputy Coordinator, Merault Ahouangansi, visited Mamove, 57 km north of Beni, in North Kivu province, on July 9 where in collaboration with local authorities, a workshop was organized to strengthen the capacities of the key local protection actors. At least 28 people, including 5 women, participated in this activity; in particular the local authorities, members of the Local Protection Committee (CLP)…
With the support of the Congolese National Police (PNC) and Uruguayan peacekeepers of MONUSCO, the Congolese army (FARDC), foiled Friday 10 July 2020 an attack by Codeco militiamen against a large convoy of civilian vehicles at Jitso, a village located 15 kilometers from the Fataki shopping center, in Djugu territory, on the ‘’Route Nationale 27, Ituri province. Sources on the spot claim that the militiamen had camped for two days in this village…
During an online conversation with journalists from Beni, in North Kivu province, the Director of the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO), Abdoul Aziz Thioye, put it clearly "only judicial investigations will help to accurately establish" the crimes committed by members of the armed group known as the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), "to characterize these crimes and to bring the perpetrators’’ to justice. He was thus commenting the…
PRESS RELEASE GENEVA / KINSHASA (6 July 2020) – The armed group known as Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) has intensified its attacks against civilians in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over the last 18 months, expanding its actions beyond areas in which it previously operated. These attacks, which have left close to 800 people dead and dozens of others injured, may amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes…
175 peacekeepers from the Nepalese Engineering Company (NEC) received UN Medals on 3rd July 2020 for their services rendered to MONUSCO. The medal award ceremony was chaired by the North Sector Commander of the UN Force in Ituri, General Ali. Those Nepalese Engineers have been performing multiple tasks and projects in support of MONUSCO’s mandate since 2003 in the Ituri Province. They have rehabilitated more than 2650 kms roads so far in…