MONUSCO
United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Press conferences

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MONUSCO organizes a weekly press conference every Wednesday that serves as a communication space for the Mission and all UN agencies in DR Congo. The press conference is broadcast live on Radio Okapi and on MONUSCO's web platforms.

contacts :
Spokesman:
Ndeye Khady Lo - Tel: +243 997068227

Media Relations:
Adele Lukoki - Tel: +243 81 89 077 06

Radio Okapi reopens its broadcasting station in Kananga. Photo MONUSCO/Anne Herrmann

Radio Okapi reopens its broadcasting station in Kananga

Kananga – 2 October 2017: Radio Okapi has resumed broadcasting locally in the Kasaï-Central province from Monday through Friday; the populations of the Kasaï-Central province can now listen to local news and programs in…
MONUSCO raises awareness of roads users on road signs. Photo MONUSCO/Amuri Aleka

MONUSCO raises awareness of roads users on road signs

Kalemie – 5th October 2017 – After donating 83 road signs to Kalemie officials and Congolese National Police, the Mission organized a series of awareness sessions on the road signs for the different categories of roads users…
Goma - DDRRR Community Violence Reduction (CVR) Workshop. Photo MONUSCO/Martha Biongo

Goma - DDRRR Community Violence Reduction (CVR) Workshop

MONUSCO North Kivu DDRRR Section has reported that at least 2,000 people, including 462 demobilized and 370 vulnerable women, have already been direct beneficiaries of the first phase of the Community Violence Reduction…
Raising Awareness on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in the North Kivu Community. Photo MONUSCO/Martha Biongo
  • Action Against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA)

Raising Awareness on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in the North Kivu Community

The MONUSCO Conduct and Discipline Team (CDT) has organized a series of awareness-raising activities in the communities of North Kivu on the dangers of sexual abuse and exploitation by MONUSCO and UN staff in general. This…
Briefing by SRSG Maman Sidikou to the UN Security Council – Open Session. Photo UN/Web TV

Briefing by SRSG Maman Sidikou to the UN Security Council – Open Session

New York, 11 October 2017 Mr President, Distinguished Members of the Council, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to brief you today on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I would like to take…
Maman Sambo Sidikou, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), addresses the Security Council. UN Photo/Cia Pak

Despite progress on voter registration, DR Congo faces challenges on election timeline – UN envoy

11 October 2017 – The notion that elections would most probably not be held before the end of 2017 has regrettably led to the re-emergence of a climate of political uncertainty and tensions in the Democratic Republic of the…
Women and their children looking for valuables in a trash dump in Kinshasa. Photo Radio Okapi /John Bompengo
  • Human Rights

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty – Tuesday 17 October 2017: World is ignoring human rights of poor despite disproportionate abuses – UN expert

GENEVA (16 October 2017) – The world’s poor are at disproportionate risk of torture, arrest, early death and domestic violence, but their civil and political rights are being airbrushed out of the picture, UN Special…
Journalists visit a project for ex-combatants’ reintegration. Photo MONUSCO/Bilamekaso Tchagbele

Journalists visit a project for ex-combatants’ reintegration

Uvira, South-Kivu - Monday, 16th October 2017: To update the population on MONUSCO’s stabilization efforts in line with its mandate, Public Information office organized an informative visit for about twenty journalists to…

United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

MONUSCO took over from an earlier UN peacekeeping operation – the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) – on 1 July 2010. It was done in accordance with Security Council resolution 1925 of 28 May to reflect the new phase.