20 Sep 2016 - Kinshasa, 20 September 2016 - A joint assessment mission team composed of the DRC Minister of Defence and other GoDRC representatives, MONUSCO Force Commander and civilian members from 20-22 September will visit several locations in North Kivu, Orientale, Ituri and Haut-Uele...
19 Sep 2016 - Kinshasa 19th September 2016 – MONUSCO expresses its deep concern about the violent clashes between protestors and security forces in Kinshasa and several other locations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and regrets the loss of life which has occurred. The Special...
17 Sep 2016 - Kinshasa, 17 September 2016 - Sixteen civil society activists of the Union of Congolese Youth for Change were arrested on 15 and 16 September in Kinshasa while holding an activity on electoral civic education. The arrests were conducted by ANR and PNC officers.
MONUSCO recalls...
11 Sep 2016 - Kinshasa September 10, 2016 - Between 24 August and 1 September MONUSCO extracted some 291 individuals from the Garamba National Park on humanitarian grounds. Many of these individuals were wounded, acutely malnourished or in another life-threatening condition
On 17 August,...
03 Sep 2016 - Kinshasa 3 September 2016 – On 31 August 2016, a man having introduced himself as FDLR combatant surrendered to MONUSCO DDR/RR staff in Sange (South-Kivu), to apply for his repatriation to Rwanda. After additional verification, MONUSCO suspects this person could be “Major...
15 Aug 2016 - Kinshasa -14 August 2016. The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in DRC and Head of MONUSCO, Maman Sambo Sidikou, offers his condolences to the Congolese people in general and to the population of Beni in particular, following the attack on the...
02 Aug 2016 - Gbadolite, 31st July 2016 – On the occasion of the launch of the pilot operation on the revision of the voters’ register in the North Ubangi province, the United Nations recalls their support to the Congolese Government for a smooth implementation of the electoral process under...
16 Jul 2016 - The members of the Security Council stressed the crucial importance of a peaceful and credible electoral cycle, in accordance with the Constitution, for stability, development, and consolidation of constitutional democracy in the DRC.
Recalling UNSC resolution 2277, they...
04 Jul 2016 - Addis Ababa, 4 July 2016: The African Union (AU) today held the inaugural meeting of the Support Group to the AU-led Facilitation of the Congolese National Dialogue.
The meeting, which was chaired by the AU Commissioner for Peace and Security, Ambassador Smail Chergui, was...
02 Jul 2016 - Kinshasa, 2nd July 2016 - Following the demise of Reverend Father Apollinaire Malumalu in the night of Thursday 30th June 2016 in Dallas, USA, MONUSCO pays a glowing tribute to the man credited with organizing the first democratic elections in 2006.
This immense...