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Martin Kobler, Chief of MONUSCO, applauds Congolese sportsmen and women and urges them to engage in the service of peace and tolerance Kinshasa, 6 April 2015 – “Sports means knowing how to compete in full respect for one’s…

Martin Kobler, Chief of MONUSCO, calls for tolerance on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Rwandan Genocide Kinshasa, 6 April 2015 – “Today, Rwanda and the whole world still remember the atrocities…

North Kivu Provincial National Radio and Television (RTNC) in Goma has received a new face lift with the construction of a new building financed by the North Kivu province. Presiding over the inaugural ceremony on Wednesday…

Martin Kobler, Head of MONUSCO, and Maximilian Dyck, Country Director, UNMAS Committed with the Government for a mine-free DRC by 2020 Kinshasa, 1 April 2015 - " The objective of the Congolese Government is to make the DRC…

26 March 2015 – The Security Council passed a resolution today renewing for 12 months the mandate of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and endorsing recommendations made in…

LUBUMBASHI, 23 March 2015 – Within the framework of the commemoration of the Women’s month, MONUSCO Public Information section/Lubumbashi organized a brainstorming session with 50 media women in Lubumbashi. The purposes of…

19 March 2015, the office of MONUSCO/Kisangani, through its Public Information Section in partnership with the NGO “Défense Sociale pour le Progrès et le Développement Rural’’ (DSPDR), held a public awareness session on the…

Uvira, 20 March 2015 – MONUSCO explained its mandate and activities to a local NGO “SOS Villages d'Enfants d'Uvira” in a sensitization session organized by its public information office; altogether sixty people including 50…

Martin Kobler, Chief of MONUSCO and José Maria Aranaz, Director of the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office appeal on “each and every one to commit themselves to eliminate racial discrimination” Kinshasa, 21 March 2015 –…

After the launch, by the Congolese armed forces (FARDC), of the operation for forcible disarmament of Rwandan fighters of the FDLR in Uvira territory, South Kivu, the United Nations, the National Commission for Refugees and…

It is 6.30 a.m. in Bunia and Hannah Kemevor, Air Operations Assistant, is already on the airport tarmac. Her role is to prepare and follow MONUSCO flights. Her day starts with the inspection of the runway. ‘‘I make sure that…

The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in the DRC paid a few hours’ visit to Goma on 20 February. Martin Kobler was accompanied by the German Minister of Foreign Affairs. It is the first time for a German…