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MONUSCO and FARDC recently launched a joint defensive operation to protect the locality of Sake as well as the city of Goma. / Photos Alain Wandimoyi
North Kivu: MONUSCO and FARDC Cement their Collaboration to Secure Goma and Sake
“ Our troops deployed here from our bases because they are prepared to die if such is the price to pay for the sake of protecting the people of this country.” It is with this firm and reassuring tone that MONUSCO Force…

Through these training courses, MONUSCO is trying to make the detainees autonomous by teaching them a trade in order to better prepare them for their return to the community. / Photos MONUSCO
Beni prison: MONUSCO’s Work has Impacted and Changed Life of an Inmate
Martine is 30 years old. You will not see her face in this publication because she speaks anonymously and, besides, Martine is an assumed name. Like any human being, Martine, a mother living in the town of Beni, has made…

Pétronille Vaweka. Photo MONUSCO/Lydie Betyna Ipanga
Action for Peacekeeping: “I try to awaken humanity in every person” says Pétronille Vaweka
Women are often shut out of conflict resolution processes the world over, despite clear and growing evidence that their engagement improves the likelihood of reaching peace agreements and the chances those agreements will be…

Troops of the South African and Malawi contingents trained on women’s rights and the promotion of human rights in Beni, North Kivu. Photo MONUSCO/Force
MONUSCO Responds to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by Mission Personnel
It is evening in Beni on a Thursday night. While many residents are winding down their day in the city in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), for one visiting team their workday is about to begin. The…

South-Kivu province : MONUSCO Has Provided the Provincial Government with Equipment to Fight COVID-19. PHOTO MONUSCO/Alain Likota
South-Kivu province : MONUSCO Has Provided the Provincial Government with Equipment to Fight COVID-19
To back the provincial government’s efforts to fitht the coronavirus disease, MONUSCO donated equipment and materials to the South-Kivu provincial government on July 17, 2020. The donated equipment and materials were received…

North Kivu : MONUSCO engages in a vegetable growing project in favor of vulnerable persons. Photo MONUSCO/Kevin Jordan
North Kivu : MONUSCO engages in a vegetable growing project in favor of vulnerable persons
At a stone's throw from the city-center of Goma, a garden of around 300 square meters shelters a few flower beds, namely germiners for vegetable plants. It is in the Lac Vert district where the Association UVDI (Union of…

Kasaï : MONUSCO Facilitates the Holding of Mobile Court Hearings to Decongest Prisons in Tshikapaa. Photo MONUSCO/Moïse Ndayambaje
Kasaï : MONUSCO Facilitates the Holding of Mobile Court Hearings to Decongest Prisons in Tshikapa
To ease crowding in the Tshikapa prisons and strengthen the rule of law, MONUSCO provided technical and financial support to the military court of the former Kasai-Occidental province for the purpose of organizing mobile…

MONUSCO regrets the death of the United Nations Police sector leader in Kinshasa.
MONUSCO regrets the death of the United Nations Police sector leader in Kinshasa
The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) learned with great sadness of the passing away of the leader of the Kinshasa United Nations Police (UNPOL) sector, Police…

MONUSCO supports local masks-production initiatives against Coronavirus
BENI: MONUSCO supports local masks-production initiatives against Coronavirus
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, women in Beni, North-Kivu province, have come forward as key players in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus. With support from the United Nations Mission in the Democratic…

Ituri: MONUSCO hands over two sites for FRPI disarmament to the government. Photo MOUSCO/Jean Tobie OKALA
Ituri: MONUSCO hands over two sites for FRPI disarmament to the government
On Monday, 11 May 2020, Monusco handed over two sites to the provincial government to be used for the disarmament and demobilization of militiamen from the Ituri Patriotic Resistance Force, FRPI. The two sites are erected in…
