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Bunia, 3 June 2013 – In Bunia, Ituri district, the Public Information section of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), in collaboration with the Government's…

Kisangani, 3 June 2013 – The two main prisons of the Eastern province, including the central prison of Kisangani, the administrative capital, and Osio prison no longer meet the minimal safety and treatment standards required…

Kananga, 31 May 2013 - A training session for 300 senior and junior members of the Congolese National Police Force including 53 women ended on 31 May 2013 at a provincial police precinct in Kananga, Kasai Occidental province…

Kisangani, 31 May 2013 – "Police responsibility and fight against violence on women and young girls in DRC" is the theme of a sensitization campaign for the Congolese National Police Force (PNC) organized in Kisangani on…

Kananga, 29 May 2013 – In Kasaï Occidental province, the Joint Office of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), like other peacekeeping missions, marked the…

Kisangani, 31 May 2013 – The UN Peacekeepers' Day was celebrated in Kisangani, Orientale province, on 29 May 2013, with simple military activities and a reading of the UN Secretary-General's message, in which he paid tribute…

Kindu, 29 May 2013 – In Kindu, the administrative capital of Maniema province in Eastern DRC, the UN peacekeepers' Day was commemorated with a relative splendor. Under the theme: "UN Peacekeeping Day: Adapting to New…

Kinshasa, 29 May 2013 – United Nations Peacekeepers are, for obvious reasons, well known by the Congolese population. They have indeed been part of their daily lives for several decades and, in large population centres or…

Goma, 29 May 2013 - "The Force Intervention Brigade is something very positive," Brigadier General James Aloizi Mwakibolwa said. "The soldiers who are coming in are very professional. They are trained and instructed…

Goma, 24 May 2013 – The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon and the President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim arrived in Goma Thursday, 23 May from Kinshasa, on a three-day visit to the Great Lakes region. In…

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…

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…