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Kinshasa, 18 November 2015 – The new Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in the DRC and Head of MONUSCO, Maman Sambo Sidikou, arrived in Kinshasa on Monday 16 November 2015. Mr. Sidikou of Niger, replaces the…

Goma, 13 November 2015 – This sentiment was expressed by MONUSCO Force Commander on the eve of his departure from the DRC and Goma, where he established the Force headquarters upon arriving in June 2013; attributing over…

South-Kivu, 11 November 2015 – MONUSCO Gender Section in the South-Kivu province, in partnership with a Congolese female legal experts’ Association, organized on 11 November 2015, a round table on how to “assist a larger…

Kalemie, 13 November - The United Nations Joint Human Right Office in Kalemie organized a capacity-building workshop on a forensic guide for dealing with sexual violence attended by twenty medical doctors in Tanganyika…

MONUSCO Public Information Office in Kisangani organized a conference-debate around the theme “ MONUSCO’s activities in Kisangani” held in the township of Makiso on Thursday 5 November 2015; in attendance were roughly 200…

Beni, 18 October, 2015 – A five-day training workshop on HIV Peer Education has ended in the North Kivu Provincial town of Beni, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The training workshop, organized by the HIV/AIDS…

MONUSCO/Kisangani office commemorated UN Day on Saturday 24 October 2015 at “Alliance Française.” In attendance were the provincial Governor, Mr. Jean Bamanisa; provincial officials, Staff members of the specialized Agencies…

Bunia, 12.Oct.15: Ituri was endowed with a human rights and elections observatory on 7 October 2015. Members of the OMDHE coordinating committee were elected in Bunia at the end of a sensitization workshop organized by the…

Bunia – 16 October 2015: More than 300 peacekeepers of the Bangladeshi air force in Ituri received the United Nations medals respectively from Lieutenant General Carlos Alberto Dos Santos Cruz, MONUSCO Force Commander and M…

David Gressly, Deputy Special Representative for the Rule of Law and Acting Head of Mission, and Jose Maria Aranaz, Representative of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, commend the Government of the DRC for its accession…

Intensified sensitization campaigns within the framework of MONUSCO DDRRR coupled with the sensitization of the PNC, FARDC and civil society organizations, in addition to the FARDC military actions against armed groups…

At the initiative of the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office, a workshop on capacity-building for the civil society organizations in the area of the protection for the victims and witnesses of sexual violence was held on…