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MONUSCO Repatriates 24,000 ex-Combatants since 2002
Bukavu, 7 March 2011 – Since 2002, the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) has facilitated the voluntary return to their original countries of at least two foreign combatants and their…
Bukavu: UN Peacekeepers Devise Ways to Improve their Image
Bukavu, 3 March 2011 – With the realization that acts of sexual misconduct committed by a small minority have devastating effects on the overall image of peacekeeping, troops of the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic…
MONUSCO Police Chief Visits North Kivu
Goma, 2 March 2011 – Inspector General Abdallah Wafy, Police Chief of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO,) was in Goma, North Kivu province, where he, along with several…
IPI Honours Radio Okapi with 2010 ‘Free Media Pioneer’ Award
Vienna, 7 September 2010 - The International Press Institute (IPI) today honoured Radio Okapi, based in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with the 2010 'Free Media Pioneer' award. Radio Okapi began broadcasting on 25…
MONUSCO Donates Prison Uniforms in Bunia
Bunia, 03 January 2011 - Prison guards at the Bunia Central Prison have been presented with new uniforms that makes them easily identifiable. In all twelve officers, two of them women, received the uniforms from MONUSCO…
MONUSCO Trains Mbandaka Youth on the Core Concept of Peace
Mbandaka, 28 December 2010 – MONUSCO Civil Affairs Section in Mbandaka brought together a number of young men and women on 28 December 2010 to train them on the concepts of peace and conflict resolution. At the end of the…
National Police Trained on Securing the Electoral Process
Bunia, 26 December 2010 – As a prelude to the upcoming elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo, MONUSCO Police organized a training of trainers' session for the Congolese National Police in Bunia. The ten-day refresher…
Kindu District Women Sensitized by MONUSCO Electoral Division
Kindu, 20 December 2010 – In the framework of the ongoing process for the review of voters' list in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, MONUSCO's Gender and Electoral Division was in Kindu today to sensitize women on the…
North Kivu: MONUSCO peacekeepers build markets in Loufou and Kirumba
Goma, 19 December 2010 - MONUSCO peacekeepers of the Indian battalion (INDBATT) in North Kivu recently constructed two markets in the villages of Loufou and Kirumba. These villages are at 195 and 200 km respectively north of…
Military Observers Promote Peace through Sports
Kinshasa, 19 December 2010 - MONUSCO Western Brigade Commander, Brig Gl Martin Owusu-Ababio, distributed 70 soccer balls to team site leaders who gathered in a symbolic ceremony in Kinshasa on 19 December to promote peace and…