Radio Okapi reopens its broadcasting station in Kananga. Photo MONUSCO/Anne Herrmann
Radio Okapi reopens its broadcasting station in Kananga
Kananga – 2 October 2017: Radio Okapi has resumed broadcasting locally in the Kasaï-Central province from Monday through Friday; the populations of the Kasaï-Central province can now listen to local news and programs in…
MONUSCO raises awareness of roads users on road signs. Photo MONUSCO/Amuri Aleka
MONUSCO raises awareness of roads users on road signs
Kalemie – 5th October 2017 – After donating 83 road signs to Kalemie officials and Congolese National Police, the Mission organized a series of awareness sessions on the road signs for the different categories of roads users…
Goma - DDRRR Community Violence Reduction (CVR) Workshop. Photo MONUSCO/Martha Biongo
Goma - DDRRR Community Violence Reduction (CVR) Workshop
MONUSCO North Kivu DDRRR Section has reported that at least 2,000 people, including 462 demobilized and 370 vulnerable women, have already been direct beneficiaries of the first phase of the Community Violence Reduction…
MONUSCO repels deadly attack by suspected ADF in Mamundioma; reinforcements deployed to secure the location. Photo MONUSCO/Force
MONUSCO repels deadly attack by suspected ADF in Mamundioma; reinforcements deployed to secure the location
KINSHASA, October 9, 2017 – In the early hours of Monday morning, MONUSCO repelled an attack by suspected Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) on a MONUSCO position in Mamundioma, North Kivu province, during which the Mission…
Raising Awareness on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in the North Kivu Community. Photo MONUSCO/Martha Biongo
- Action Against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA)
Raising Awareness on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in the North Kivu Community
The MONUSCO Conduct and Discipline Team (CDT) has organized a series of awareness-raising activities in the communities of North Kivu on the dangers of sexual abuse and exploitation by MONUSCO and UN staff in general. This…
Briefing by SRSG Maman Sidikou to the UN Security Council – Open Session. Photo UN/Web TV
Briefing by SRSG Maman Sidikou to the UN Security Council – Open Session
New York, 11 October 2017 Mr President, Distinguished Members of the Council, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to brief you today on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I would like to take…
Security and humanitarian situation deteriorating amidst political uncertainty in Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo UN/Web TV
Security and humanitarian situation deteriorating amidst political uncertainty in Democratic Republic of Congo
The Special Representative of the Secretary General and Head of the United Nations Mission in the DR Congo - Monusco Maman S. Sidikou, briefed the UN Security Council this morning on the situation in the Democratic Republic…
Maman Sambo Sidikou, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), addresses the Security Council. UN Photo/Cia Pak
Despite progress on voter registration, DR Congo faces challenges on election timeline – UN envoy
11 October 2017 – The notion that elections would most probably not be held before the end of 2017 has regrettably led to the re-emergence of a climate of political uncertainty and tensions in the Democratic Republic of the…
Women and their children looking for valuables in a trash dump in Kinshasa. Photo Radio Okapi /John Bompengo
- Human Rights
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty – Tuesday 17 October 2017: World is ignoring human rights of poor despite disproportionate abuses – UN expert
GENEVA (16 October 2017) – The world’s poor are at disproportionate risk of torture, arrest, early death and domestic violence, but their civil and political rights are being airbrushed out of the picture, UN Special…
Journalists visit a project for ex-combatants’ reintegration. Photo MONUSCO/Bilamekaso Tchagbele
Journalists visit a project for ex-combatants’ reintegration
Uvira, South-Kivu - Monday, 16th October 2017: To update the population on MONUSCO’s stabilization efforts in line with its mandate, Public Information office organized an informative visit for about twenty journalists to…
Maman Sidikou, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Head of MONUSCO
MONUSCO calls for the immediate release of opposition activists arrested yesterday in Lubumbashi
KINSHASA – 23 October 2017 - The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) condemns the arrest of many members of the Rassemblement des forces politiques et sociales…
- Human Rights
Principales tendances des violations des droits de l’homme en septembre 2017
Durant le mois de septembre 2017, le BCNUDH a documenté 644 violations des droits de l’homme sur l’ensemble du territoire de la RDC, soit une augmentation de 46% par rapport au mois d’août 2017, au cours duquel 441 violations…