News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

Kinshasa, 22 June 2009 - MONUC appeals to the government for the urgent application of measures, over the whole country, in order to improve prison conditions and to reinforce security in the prisons, especially those relating to the protection of women against sexual violence, in order to avoid a…

Kinshasa, June 30 2009 - On the 49th anniversary of the independence of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Alan Doss, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in the DRC and head of the United Nations mission in the country, congratulated the Congolese people and their leaders on behalf of…

Kinshasa May 19, 2009 - The delegation of the United Nations Security Council arrived yesterday in Kinshasa via Goma in North Kivu, and left the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo after meeting with high-level officials of the DRC, including President Joseph Kabila Kabange. During a press…

Kinshasa, 13 May 2009 - MONUC firmly condemns the attack on 9-10 May 2009 against the civil population and the FARDC in Busurungi (20 km northeast of northern Hombo), in the territory of Walikale. MONUC dispatched a team on the spot as soon as rumours emerged of this attack, which caused the death…

Kinshasa, 28 March 2009 - Alan Doss, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in the DRC welcomes the announcement today by the Independent Electoral Commission of the calendar of operations regarding the revision of the electoral register for the DRC urban, municipal and local elections…

Goma, 24 March 2009 - Alan Doss, Special representative of the UN Secretary General in the DRC, met with South Kivu governor Louis Muderhwa Chirimwami. The two officials had an hour long discussion on several subjects of mutual interest, in particular the fast implementation of agreements signed the…

Kinshasa, 9 March 2009 - FDLR troops continue to surrender to DRC Armed Forces (FARDC) and MONUC forces. The latest example was that of three FDLR troops accompanied by their families, who surrendered on 7 March 2009 to a FARDC-MONUC joint patrol in Bushaho, 15km east of Kashebere in North Kivu…

Kinshasa, 30 January 2009 -"The MONUC Planning and Liaison Team put in place in Goma, is not yet operational. We expect first to be associated with the planning of the operations," according to the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for the DR Congo, Alan Doss. Mr Doss…

Kinshasa, 31 January 2009 - "The option of voluntary disarmament, demobilisation, repatriation, resettlement and reintegration (DDRRR) remains fully open to FDLR combatants, despite the joint FARDC/RDF military operations". That is the essence of the message by the head of the DDRRR section of the…

Goma, 21 February 2008 - Alan Doss, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in the Democratic Republic of Congo, concluded a two day work visit to North Kivu province in eastern DRC. The aim of the visit was to evaluate the evolution of the situation on the ground, with Congolese civil…

Kinshasa, 10 February 2009 - A MONUC Disarmament, Demobilization, Repatriation, Resettlement and Reintegration (DDRRR) team for foreign combatants went, on Sunday February 8, 2008, to Kasiki (200 km north of Goma), to ensure the transfer to Goma (for the voluntary repatriation to Rwanda), of some…

Kinshasa, 6 February 2009 - Mr. Alan Doss, Special Representative of the Secretary General in Congo, responded to criticism of MONUC this week from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). In a letter to Ms. Laurence Gaubert, Head of Mission for MSF in Congo, Mr. Doss said that MONUC's responsibilities and…