UN Secretary-General starts official visit to Kinshasa while M23 and FARDC clash near Goma
Kinshasa, 22 May 2013 - The United Nations Stabilization Mission in DR Congo (MONUSCO) announces that the Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, has started this morning his official visit to the DRC. This visit should be seen in…
UN Secretary-General Arrives in Goma
Kinshasa, 23 May 2013 – The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon arrived this Thursday morning in the Nord Kivu province from Kinshasa as part of a joint mission to the sub-region with the President of the World Bank…
UN SG to convene a meeting to review the status of the implementation of the Framework-Agreement
Kinshasa, 23 May 2013 – During his joint visit to Kinshasa on 22 May 2013 with the President of the World Bank Group, the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon said he would convene a meeting in May 2013 to review the…
United Nations destroy 114 small-caliber firearms and over 6,000 ammunitions in Bukavu
Bukavu, 9 May 2013 – The United Nations Mine Action Coordination Center organized weapons demolition operation on 9 April 2013 in Bukavu, the capital city of the South Kivu province in collaboration with the Disarmament…
MONUSCO and its partners build prison staff capacity in province Orientale
Kisangani, 17 May 2013 – The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) and several partners wound up a nine-day capacity-building training in Kisangani, administrative…
Nearly Hundred People Buried in Landslide in Masisi territory, North-Kivu Province
Goma, 20 May 2013 – A hundred diggers and villagers were buried following deadly landslide Thursday 16 May 2013 in a mining zone in Masisi. The accident happened six kilometers from Rubaya, a locality situated between Koyi…
Officials of decentralized territorial entities trained in Gbadolite, Equateur province
Mbandaka, 11 April 2013 – From 8 to 10 April 2013, the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), in collaboration with the Project to Support Decentralization and Local…
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MONUSCO trains Sud Kivu’s journalists on reporting on sexual violence issues
Bukavu, 9 April 2013 – In Bukavu, Sud Kivu, the Public Information Office of the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) organized, on 4 April 2013, a one-day training workshop for journalists…
Province Orientale in the face of challenges for actual implementation of STAREC
Kisangani, 10 May 2013 – A few years after being launched, the DR Congo's Stabilization and Reconstruction program for areas emerging out of armed conflict (STAREC) – a program buttressed by an international mechanism known…
DDR/RR to sensitize LRA combatants through “Helicopter-Messaging”
Goma, May 23, 2013 - The Disarmament, Demobilization, Repatriation, Reintegration, and Resettlement (DD/RRR) division of the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) initiated early this month a…
UN Secretary-General and President of the World Bank Group on official joint visit to eastern DRC
Goma, 24 May 2013 – The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon and the President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim arrived in Goma Thursday, 23 May from Kinshasa, on a three-day visit to the Great Lakes region. In…
Brigadier General James Mwakibolwa: New method of combating violence in the DR Congo
Goma, 29 May 2013 - "The Force Intervention Brigade is something very positive," Brigadier General James Aloizi Mwakibolwa said. "The soldiers who are coming in are very professional. They are trained and instructed…