DRC: PEACEKEEPERS’ DAY MARKED UNDER THE SIGN OF YOUTH COMMITTED TO PEACE AND SECURITY
DRC: PEACEKEEPERS’ DAY MARKED UNDER THE SIGN OF YOUTH COMMITTED TO PEACE AND SECURITY
"United Nations peacekeeping operations help to maintain peace in some of the world's most dangerous places." In his broadcast on the occasion of the celebration of the International Day of Peacekeepers, UN Secretary General…
Khassim Diagne in Bunia: "Other approaches should be explored to bring communities to lasting reconciliation" . Photo MONUSCO/Jean-Tobie Okala
Khassim Diagne in Bunia: "Other approaches should be explored to bring communities to lasting reconciliation"
During his second visit to Ituri, Wednesday June 16, 2021, almost four months after taking up office, the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in the DRC, in charge of operations and protection, Khassim…
Awareness-raising for National Members of Parliament on the need to fight hate rethoric. Photo MONUSCO/David Fundi
Awareness-raising for National Members of Parliament on the need to fight hate rethoric
During a morning discussions organized in Kinshasa on June 8, 2021 at the Pullman hotel by the United Nations Joint Office for Human Rights (UNJHRO) and the Division of Strategic Communication and Public Information MONUSCO…
Khassim Diagne in Tchabi: "The hunt down of the ADF will now take a new turn with the arrival of additional FIB forces". Photo MONUSCO/mICHAEL aLI
Khassim Diagne in Tchabi: "The hunt down of the ADF will now take a new turn with the arrival of additional FIB forces"
In response to the violence from armed groups in the Tchabi and Boga areas, roughly 120 km from Bunia, in Irumu territory, Ituri province, Khassim Diagne, Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in DRC, in…
South Kivu: Biogas for Uvira central prison. Photo MONUSCO/Correction Unit
South Kivu: Biogas for Uvira central prison
Inmates in Uvira central prison, South Kivu province now have a new source of combustible energy: biogas. With MONUSCO funding, a pilot biogas project was inaugurated in this prison last May. On top of this project, the…
Fight against criminality in Bunia: Roughly a hundred solar panels installed by MONUSCO. Photo MONUSCO / Jean-Tobie Okala
Fight against criminality in Bunia: Roughly a hundred solar panels installed by MONUSCO
With funding from MONUSCO to the tune of $132,000, one hundred and four solar panels have been installed in Bunia, Ituri, to fight criminality in this town where acts of burglary and other criminal acts are often reported…
South Kivu: MONUSCO Braced to facilitate inter-community dialogue in the Hauts-plateaux for the return of peace. PHOTO MONUSCO/Alain Likota
South Kivu: MONUSCO Braced to facilitate inter-community dialogue in the Hauts-plateaux for the return of peace
The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Bintou Keita, paid a working visit to South Kivu from June 30 to July 2. During this visit which took her to the…
MONUSCO supports the fight against the trafficking of harmful substances in prisons. Photo MONUSCO/Correction Unit
MONUSCO supports the fight against the trafficking of harmful substances in prisons
To fight the consumption and trafficking of illicit substances in the central prison of Makala, in Kinshasa, the field team of MONUSCO Correction Administration Support Unit organized two awareness-raising sessions for five…
Ituri: MONUSCO and UNDP Support the Fight against Impunity for Crimes against the Peace and Security of Humanity. Photo MONUSCO/Jean-Tobie Okala
Ituri: MONUSCO and UNDP Support the Fight against Impunity for Crimes against the Peace and Security of Humanity
MONUSCO and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), in collaboration with the High Military Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo, organised a workshop from 14 to 15 July 2021 in Bunia to take stock of the…
Ituri: MONUSCO Provides Temporary Work for 1,500 At-Risk Youth, Including Ex-Combatants. Photo MONUSCO/Jean-Tobie Okala
Ituri: MONUSCO Provides Temporary Work for 1,500 At-Risk Youth, Including Ex-Combatants
As part of its Community Violence Reduction (CVR) projects, MONUSCO has handed over to local authorities two agricultural feeder roads and three bridges located in the villqge groupings of Zadu and Baviba, 60 kilometers from…
Ituri: MONUSCO has trained more than 650 FARDC officers and troops in combat tactics in the jungle
From July 9 to 23, 2021, MONUSCO trained 652 officers and troops of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) as well as members of the Congolese National Police (PNC), including one woman, on military…
Jean-Guy Isaya, team leader of police officers specializing in gender-based sexual violence at UNPOL, interacts here with some students from the Don Bosco Ngangi Institute in Goma. / Photo: Kevin Jordan
North Kivu: MONUSCO raise awareness of 200 students on gender-based sexual violence
MONUSCO (UNPOL) Police Officers’ team specialized in gender-based sexual violence sensitized, on July 27, 55 students at Don Bosco Ngangi Institute located in Karisimbi commune, Goma. The objective of the awareness session…