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Disarmament, Demobilization and Community Reintegration: Life After Fighting. Photo MONUSCO/DDR
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Moussa Abdula was 20 years old when he joined a Mai-Mai self-defense group, before being recruited by the M23 rebel group in exchange for huge financial promises. After 4 years of a life of violence, he surrendered to MONUSCO…
Community Liaison Assistants (CLA) from the Civil Affairs section build the capacity of local partners to participate and be directly involved in the protection of their communities / Photos MONUSCO
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“ Thanks to MONUSCO peacekeepers we have settled here. They protect us. The day they leave here, we will also have to move to avoid being killed by the Codecos,” said a displaced woman from the Djaiba camp, in the Walendu…
The children recovered by CPS/MONUSCO are made available to UNICEF for their care, reunification and reintegration into the community. / Photos MONUSCO
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The Mission’s Child Protection Section (CPS) in the DRC announced on Tuesday, September 13, 2022, in Bunia, Ituri, it had facilitated the withdrawal of 235 children from armed groups in this province. These children had been…
Arrival in Uvira, August 2022, of armed groups ex-combatants in the highlands of Uvira and Fizi after awareness-raising on the DDRRR process. Photos MONUSCO DDRRR/Uvira
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From January 1 to September 6, 2022, fifty-one (51) armed groups’ combatants voluntarily surrendered to MONUSCO base in Minembwe, South Kivu, with 31 AK-47 weapons. This is the result of the robust sensitization carried out…
Trust Fund in Support of Victims | The Trust Fund in Support of Victims of SEA provides resources and services to victims, including children born as a result of sexual exploitation and abuse.
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A new report has revealed how projects supported by a UN trust fund for victims of sexual exploitation and abuse by UN personnel are helping victims to regain their dignity, learn new skills, and improve their livelihoods…
The United Nations Security Council does not prohibit the Democratic Republic of the Congo from buying weapons to protect its national integrity and deal with the local and foreign armed groups.PHOTOS/ MONUSCO
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The United Nations Security Council Resolution 2641 (2022) on the notification regime for the purchase of arms in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), adopted on June 30, 2021, gave rise to a wave of reactions among the…
The purpose of the workshop was to serve as a brainstorming framework for a joint analysis of the situation which led to the loss of trust between MONUSCO and the populations in the South Kivu province. Photo MONUSCO / Alain Wandimoyi
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" Today, thinking about restoring the trust means the trust has been lost following some events, some disappointments," said the Mayor of Bukavu, Meschac Bilubi Ulengabo, while welcoming his guests at a brainstorming workshop…
Bintou Keita requests media professionals to broadcast accurate information about MONUSCO for the benefit of the Congolese population. Photos MONUSCO / Michael Ali
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“For those who still remember, Peacekeepers used to be present in several places in the country. Currently, they are in a few provinces only. MONUSCO is only present in 14 or 15 out of the 145 territories DRC has”. The head…
Forty social actors from the Ituri province have attended a two-Day training in Bunia with support from the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office of MONUSCO/Photo MONUSCO
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Conscious of the existence of this scourge and its negative impact in such a volatile context faced by the DRC in general and Ituri in particular, the provincial bureau of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), with…
The work consisted, among other things, in building three new classrooms in solid material and rehabilitating six more in planks. / Photos MONUSCO
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In North Kivu province, new classrooms have been built and equipped by MONUSCO’s quick impact project for a primary school in Malehe village, which is located on the outskirts of the city of Saké, in Kamuronza grouping, the…
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Kinshasa, July 25, 2022: MONUSCO condemns, in the strongest terms possible, the attack on its premises in Goma, North Kivu.
Jean-Pierre Lacroix : « Jean-Pierre Lacroix: “We discussed how to defuse tensions and achieve our objectives with the Congolese authorities ». Photo Monusco / Carine Tope
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The Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, was in Kinshasa on 28 and 29 July 2022 to meet with partners of the UN Mission in the DRC, including the Congolese authorities, following the violent anti…