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Didier Vignon Dossou-Gbakon On Friday, 16 May, forty-two Congolese soldiers completed a two-week intensive training on the use of mortars in Bunia, Ituri province. The training, delivered by Indonesian, Moroccan, Nepali, and Bangladeshi MONUSCO peacekeepers, aimed to enhance the operational…

Two years ago today, Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups launched an abhorrent large-scale terror attack on Israel. The attackers brutally killed more than 1,250 Israelis and foreign nationals. More than 250 others were abducted and taken into the Gaza Strip as hostages, including women…

“Today marks two years since Hamas carried out its horrific attacks on Israeli towns and communities on 7 October 2023 which resulted in the brutal killing of more than 1,200 people, including many women and children. We mourn all those who lost their lives in this tragedy and stand in solidarity…

Jean-Tobie Okala In Ituri Province, MONUSCO launched construction work on May 22, 2025, for a new training facility dedicated to military justice actors. The building will be located within the premises of the Ituri Superior Military Prosecutor’s Office in Bunia. The project responds to a request…

Jean-Tobie Okala After a building under construction collapsed in the Bankoko neighborhood in Bunia, Nepalese, Indonesian, Senegalese, and Bangladeshi peacekeepers, along with MONUSCO police officers are working alongside rescue teams to find survivors. At least three people have been confirmed dead…

Jean-Tobie Okala General Evariste Kakule Somo, Governor of North Kivu Province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, was the first to speak on May 28, 2025, in Beni — the provisional provincial capital — on the eve of the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, celebrated…

Alain Wandimoyi In response to the deteriorating security conditions due to armed conflict in North Kivu province, particularly in the vicinity of Goma, approximately thirty stakeholders from civil society, women's associations, youth organizations, and the education sector attended a two-day…

Didier Vignon Dossou-Gbakon et Jean-Tobie Okala Saturday, May 24, 2025. It is a little past 11 a.m., under the scorching sun, in the Tsere community in the Ituri province. Samuel, in his thirties, watches with a discreet smile the lush enclosure where about twenty cows are grazing. This pasture…

ean-Tobie Okala In Beni, North Kivu Province, MONUSCO celebrated World Environment Day on Thursday, June 5, by organizing an awareness campaign and planting trees at a local school. “ It’s a very important day” said Adam Obatoki Salami, acting head of the UN mission’s sub-office. Celebrated every…

Jean-Tobie Okala About twenty staff members from the military and civil judicial administration of Beni and Butembo, as well as Congolese police officers, attended two simultaneous training sessions from May 26 to June 5, 2025, at MONUSCO’s headquarters in Beni. The first focused on ballistic…

Joël Bofengo In addition to being a poet and slam artist, Congolese Do Nsoseme Dora is also a photographer. Her work, at the intersection of documentary and conceptual styles, often features staged scenes that challenge traditional gender roles. She is one of about ten women whose photographs have…

Martial Mukeba wa Mukeba Twenty-five Congolese prison administration officers from the Beni region in North Kivu, including four women, took part in a training session on June 10, 2025, focused on preventing radicalization and violent extremism of detainees. Organized at Kangbayi Urban Prison by…