DRC / INTERVENTION BRIGADE ARRIVAL
Tanzanian forces arrived last Friday (10 May) to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to serve in the intervention brigade recently approved by the Security Council. MONUSCO
Tanzanian forces arrived last Friday (10 May) to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to serve in the intervention brigade recently approved by the Security Council. MONUSCO
The Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Africa, Mary Robinson briefed the Council today on the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, which was signed in February, and said that there were no guarantees that this new push for peace will succeed. UNTV
Mary Robinson, the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Africa, arrived to Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo yesterday where she met with President Joseph Kabila, and Prime Minister Augustin Matata. MONUSCO
Funding from the European Union helps refugee children in southern Chad’s Camp Amboko go to school. UNHCR
A group of women assembled and marched yesterday in the streets of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to pass a message against the FDLR occupation of the Kivus. MONUSCO
ecretary-General Ban Ki-moon tells a Security Council meeting on Women and Peace and Security that preventing sexual violence is “first and foremost a responsibility of States” but stressed that “prevention is also a collective responsibility” and to succeed, “we must use all the tools at our disposal.” UNTV
Fighting and a coup since late last year in Central African Republichave forced more than 30,000 people to seek refuge in DR Congo. UNHCR chief António Guterres visited some of them. UNHCR
A new Global Action Plan launched today by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF has the potential to save up to 2 million children every year from deaths caused by pneumonia and diarrhoea, some of the leading killers of children under five globally. WHO/UNICEF
UNICEF is supporting the Ugandan government in delivering much needed services to the vulnerable Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) refugee population at the Rwamyanja Refugee Settlement, in western Uganda. UNICEF
A medical camp was set up at Kanyaruchina health center, near Goma in North Kivu province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where about 500 people including children received treatment at the one day event. MONUSCO