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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…

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…

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…

Eight hundred (800) South African National Defense Force members, including 100 female soldiers, were issued with the United Nations Medals after 12-month service within the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Congo…

The Civil society in Bahema-Nord, Djugu Territory, Ituri province, has welcomed MONUSCO’s action which helped to restore calm in this entity located approximately 73 kilometres from Bunia, east of the DRC. The head of this…

The laying of the foundation stone for the construction of a health clinic for the Congolese National Police (PNC) in Tanganyika took place on Wednesday July 1, 2020 in Kalemie, Tanganyika province. It is Mr. Houmed Ibrahim…

The United Nations police (UNPOL) sector serving within MONUSCO in Kananga, Kasaï-Central province, organized with its partners, a brainstorming workshop around the coordination of the responses in the context of the fight…

MONUSCO paid tribute to Sergeant Major Wahyudi Rama from the Indonesian contingent, killed on June 22, in an attack by armed men not far from the Semuliki bridge, on the road to Beni-Kasindi, the territory of Beni, North Kivu…

It took three weeks for the MONUSCO Nepalese military engineers to refurbish the Kolomani bridge on the road from Bunia to Mongbwalu in the territory of Djugu, Ituri province. The official handover of this work to the…

To build and strengthen trust between local actors and the Congolese National Police in the protection of civilians, MONUSCO facilitated, on June 15, a meeting between the social partners and the Congolese National Police (…

Altogether, twenty people participated in a workshop held for members of the Joint Technical Working Group (GTTC) on the implementation mechanism for the Action Plan on child protection in the Ituri province, from Thursday…

From Sunday 14 to Monday 15 June 2020, MONUSCO Corrections Unit organized a two-day training sessions on the prison registry work for ten clerks of the court of Bunia central prison, including two women and two clerks from…