In Kananga, UN Joint Human Rights Office intensify sensitization on people’s rights and responsibilities in preparation to upcoming elections. Photo MONUSCO/Laurent Sam OUSSOU
In Kananga, UN Joint Human Rights Office intensify sensitization on people’s rights and responsibilities in preparation to upcoming elections
Kananga, 31-Jul. -18 : UN Human Rights Joint Office organized in July a number of sensitization sessions on people’s rights and responsibilities for the different actors to compete during the electoral period. With the…
The Uruguayan Battalion IV has been recipients of the UN Medals. Photo MONUSCO/Force
The Uruguayan Battalion IV has been recipients of the UN Medals
Goma, the 25th August 2018 - The Uruguayan Battalion IV has been happy recipients of the UN Medals. Presiding during the occasion MONUSCO Force Commander Lt General Elias Martins Rodriguez Filho reiterated that the medal…
Briefing to the Open Session of the UN Security Council on the Situation in the DRC by SRSG Leila Zerrougui
Madame President, The perceived credibility of the electoral process remains a key concern. The ongoing review and contestation process, in particular of Presidential candidates, by the Constitutional Court will be key to the…
A Medal parade organized for 250 Ukrainian Soldiers. Photo MONUSCO/Force
A Medal parade organized for 250 Ukrainian Soldiers
Goma , the 24th August 2018 - MONUSCO Ukrainian Aviation Unit has organized a Medal parade for 250 Ukrainian Soldiers at Goma airport. Speaking during the ceremony MONUSCO Force Commander Lt General Elias Martins Rodriguez…
Portrait of Doctor Oumarou SALISSOU
The last two outbreaks of the Ebola Virus Fever having successively occurred in the Democratic Republic of Congo have seen the full participation, whenever necessary, of all the health professionals to the response against…
Strengthening the Rule of Law and Protection of Civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
In recent years, approaches to the provision of support to the rule of law in conflict and post-conflict settings have evolved significantly. While in the past the provision of support to the justice sector was generally…
Portrait of Franck NZOLANI MAVAMBU
Is there anyone in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) who can say he or she doesn’t know Franck Nzolani Mavambu? No, no, no, don’t raise your hand for this would mean you…
UN Security Council in Kinshasa: “Our visit went beyond our expectations”. Photo MONUSCO. Michael ALI
UN Security Council in Kinshasa: “Our visit went beyond our expectations”
" Our visit went beyond our expectations," said Veronica Cordova Sopria, Deputy Permanent Representative of Bolivia to the UN, at the end of a two-day visit to Kinshasa by a UN Security Council delegation. Kinshasa, October…
The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been providing assistance to the election process. Here, in March 2017, a generator is unloaded from a UN helicopter in Popokabaka in the south-west of the country.
DR Congo: Electoral process advancing despite threat of armed groups, Head of MONUSCO tells Security Council
The situation is most worrying in Beni, where civilians, security forces, and the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) continue to come under near-daily attacks, Leila Zerrougui, the Special Representative of the…
Second Implementation Workshop for Improving Security of Peacekeepers, Entebbe
Entebbe, Uganda, 15 Oct 2018 - From 12 to 14 October 2018, MONUSCO joined the Second Implementation Workshop for Improving Security of Peacekeepers at the Regional Service Centre in Entebbe. The activity was organized by the…
On 12 September 2018 in Beni, Kambale, 7 years old, attends school in the Ndindi neighborhod of Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been hit by an Ebola epidemic. There he learned that washing his hands is a good way to prevent Ebola.© UNICEF/Thomas Nybo
Ebola in DR Congo: UN chief ‘outraged’ by recent killings of civilians and health workers
The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres said on Monday he is “outraged by the continued killing and abduction of civilians by armed groups” near Beni, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s North Kivu…
Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Secretary-General is outraged by the continued killing and abduction of civilians by armed groups in the Beni area of North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He condemns Saturday's killing of at least…