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JOSIANE NZIGIRE : "My wish is to see many more women on the ground alongside the vulnerable populations to give them support and hope.

JOSIANE NZIGIRE : "My wish is to see many more women on the ground alongside the vulnerable populations to give them support and hope."

| PORTRAIT | Her name is Josiane Nzigire. The young Congolese woman has been working since February 2013, as Community Liaison Assistant (CLA) in the Civil Affairs section at the office of the United Nations Mission in the…
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JOY MMOTONG, in the service of Peace and the Helicopters/Photo MONUSCO/Myriam Asmani

JOY MMOTONG, in the service of Peace and the Helicopters

|PORTRAIT | Joy MMOTONG wears her cap, nicely fixed over the skull, letting everyone see her short hair, sparkling eye and an attractive smile. Her gray overalls turns out to be her daily costume. Her function : Oryx…
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LONGHI FAIDA JEANNETTE: A Congolese Peacekeeper Serving Local Communities

LONGHI FAIDA JEANNETTE: A Congolese Peacekeeper Serving Local Communities

|PORTRAIT| "As a Community Liaison Assistant (CLA), my job is to bring the Mission closer to the population. To this end, my task consists in fostering community engagement, in particular that of the civil society…
Fight against COVID-19: Journalists from Beni sensitized by MONUSCO and the WHO. Photo MONUSCO/Michael ALI

Fight against COVID-19: Journalists from Beni sensitized by MONUSCO and the WHO

MONUSCO Office of Strategic Communication and Public Information organized an awareness-raising activity on COVID-19 on June 12, 2020 for 20 journalists from Beni and Butembo, in the North Kivu province. The activity took…
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MONUSCO raises women prisoners’ and minors’ awareness of the Covid-19 and HIV-AIDS in Bunia. Photo MONUSCO/Jean-Tobie OKALA

MONUSCO raises women prisoners’ and minors’ awareness of the Covid-19 and HIV-AIDS in Bunia

Forty-eight female prisoners and thirty-two under-age boys detained in Bunia prison were sensitized last Thursday, June 11, by MONUSCO HIV / AIDS Section on the Covid-19 pandemic. The Awareness session focused, among other…
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Child Protection: MONUSCO supports the development of a Provincial Roadmap for Ituri. Photo MONUSCO/Jean-Tobie OKALA

Child Protection: MONUSCO supports the development of a Provincial Roadmap for Ituri

Altogether, twenty people participated in a workshop held for members of the Joint Technical Working Group (GTTC) on the implementation mechanism for the Action Plan on child protection in the Ituri province, from Thursday…
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North Kivu : The Chief of MONUCO Goma/Office has visited Munigi Demobilization Camp. Photo MONUSCO/Myriam Asmani

North Kivu : The Chief of MONUCO Goma/Office has visited Munigi Demobilization Camp

A few days ago, Omar Aboud, chief of MONUSCO/Goma office visited Munigi, one of the six demobilization camps in North Kivu run by the DDR / RR section. Munigi camp is a short distance away from Northern Goma, along the road…
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