News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major General Aroldo Lázaro chaired a regular Tripartite meeting with senior officers of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at a UN position in Ras al-Naqoura today. “During the last couple of months, there have been a number of…

On 12 June, MINURSO celebrated Russia’s National Day by raising its flag at the Mission headquarters in Laayoune next to the UN flag. On this day, in 1991, the Russian parliament formally the Declaration of Russian State Sovereignty. The holiday was officially established in 1992. The Russian…

MONUSCO and the government validated Thursday, June 15 in Goma, the Terms of Reference of the integrated provincial transition team. This team is now operational in North Kivu. The integrated provincial transition teams are established by MONUSCO, the Government and other partners in various…

MONUSCO organized Tuesday, June 13, an awareness day for a hundred students from the Bilingual Christian University of Congo (UCBC) in Beni, North Kivu. This awareness-raising is part of a series of activities the Mission is organizing throughout the national territory to involve a larger number of…

Samboko, a village located 58 kilometers from the city of Beni in North Kivu, now has public lighting. Before MONUSCO installed solar streetlights there, the population faced darkness which caused cases of insecurity perpetrated by armed groups. The sixty-five streetlights installed with funding…

"Every cloud has a silver lining". The expression has been used by Jeanine, Alain, and Henry, the three staff working for the city hall in Beni who are pleased with the improvement in their working conditions since the construction of the new building, financed by MONUSCO. Almost two years after the…

The Public Prosecutor's Office at the Goma Peace Court now has three buildings entirely financed by MONUSCO. The first rehabilitated building houses the public prosecutor's office of the Peace Court of Goma. It has been completely refurbished: the hall, the courtroom, the two detention cells for men…

"Recruiting children into the army before they reach the legal age of majority means depriving them of their right to education". Since December 2022, the Army and Police have launched recruitment campaigns to strengthen their ranks and tackle the insecurity that is rife in some provinces of the…

Bamako, 9 June 2023 - The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) strongly condemns today’s attack, 9 June, on one of its security patrols in Ber town, Timbuktu region. The patrol was targeted in an attack that involved an Improvised Explosive Device (IED)…

The historic city of Timbuktu, in Northern Mali, hosted from 31 May to 1 June 2023, a visit from a significant delegation of donors to the United Nations Trust Fund for Peace and Security in Mali. Led by the Norwegian ambassador to Mali, Mrs. Elianne Skjeie Rigmor KOTI, the delegation also included…

UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told correspondents that the decision to send the unit home had been made by the Secretariat in New York, following consultations with the peacekeeping mission in CAR, MINUSCA. ‘Credible evidence’ “The decision comes after a preliminary investigation which found…

[Near Verbatim] Madame President, Thank you for the opportunity to address the Council today on the situation in South Sudan. I acknowledge the presence of the interim Chairperson of RJMEC, Gen. Charles Gituai, and the President of the Community of Sant'Egidio, Prof. Marco Impagliazzo, who will…