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DRC: Bintou Keita reiterates MONUSCO's determination to support the stabilization of Ituri
DRC: Bintou Keita reiterates MONUSCO's determination to support the stabilization of Ituri
“To heal the wounds for everyone and for all the communities in Ituri, it is of paramount importance that trust be established between all the actors involved in the fight against the enemies of peace. This statement was made…

LONGHI FAIDA JEANNETTE: A Congolese Peacekeeper Serving Local Communities
LONGHI FAIDA JEANNETTE: A Congolese Peacekeeper Serving Local Communities
|PORTRAIT| "As a Community Liaison Assistant (CLA), my job is to bring the Mission closer to the population. To this end, my task consists in fostering community engagement, in particular that of the civil society…

MONUSCO strengthens the operational capacities of the FARDC to fight against armed groups in Ituri. Photo MONUSCO/Jean-Tobie Okala
MONUSCO reinforces FARDC’s operational capacities in the context of the fight against armed groups in Ituri
Fuel, food rations and water: Those are the items donated by MONUSCO to the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) to strengthen their operational capacities in the context of the fight against armed groups in Ituri. The first…

Fight against COVID-19: Journalists from Beni sensitized by MONUSCO and the WHO. Photo MONUSCO/Michael ALI
Fight against COVID-19: Journalists from Beni sensitized by MONUSCO and the WHO
MONUSCO Office of Strategic Communication and Public Information organized an awareness-raising activity on COVID-19 on June 12, 2020 for 20 journalists from Beni and Butembo, in the North Kivu province. The activity took…

MONUSCO raises women prisoners’ and minors’ awareness of the Covid-19 and HIV-AIDS in Bunia. Photo MONUSCO/Jean-Tobie OKALA
MONUSCO raises women prisoners’ and minors’ awareness of the Covid-19 and HIV-AIDS in Bunia
Forty-eight female prisoners and thirty-two under-age boys detained in Bunia prison were sensitized last Thursday, June 11, by MONUSCO HIV / AIDS Section on the Covid-19 pandemic. The Awareness session focused, among other…

North Kivu: MONUSCO trains Congolese security forces and services to protect children in armed conflict. Photo MONUSCO/Myriam Asmani
North Kivu: MONUSCO trains Congolese security forces and services to protect children in armed conflict
As part of activities related to the protection of children in armed conflict, MONUSCO's Child Protection Section organized a training workshop on December 9 and 10, 2020 for the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) of the 34th…

BENI : Local communities have received means and equipment for their socio-economic recovery. Photo MONUSCO/Sy Koumbo S. Gali
BENI : Local communities have received means and equipment for their socio-economic recovery
“We received carpentry training in Mavivi as well as tools such as saws and planers which have been handed over to us today. I'm sure we're going to make a better use of them”, said Muhindo Kiriki Siméon, a vulnerable young…

ITURI: MONUSCO intervenes to address starvation concerns at Bunia Central Prison
ITURI: MONUSCO intervenes to address starvation concerns at Bunia Central Prison
Between mid-August and September 10, 2020, seven detainees were reported starving to death at Bunia central prison, in the Ituri province. Between January and September 10, 2020, altogether 52 inmates died of malnutrition in…

Bunia central prison provided with a fence wall and two watchtowers. Photo MONUSCO
Bunia central prison provided with a fence wall and two watchtowers
MONUSCO Office Chief in Ituri, Josiah Obat, officially handed over to the Ituri Provincial Government on Friday, July 31, 2020 a concrete 430-linear meter and 3-meter high fence wall, and two watchtowers or observation posts…

MONUSCO's quick-impact project consists of the expansion of the existing delivery room and the construction of a neonatology room and an emergency unit within the PNC health centre in Goma. Photo MONUSCO / Ado Abdou
North Kivu: MONUSCO set to improve the quality of the health care provided by North-Kivu health centre to the PNC in Goma
On July 29, 2020, Omar Aboud, chief of MONUSCO/Goma Petit Nord office, and General Aba Van Ang, the provincial commissioner of the Congolese national police in North-Kivu, jointly laid the foundation stone for the…
