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
Mary Robinson, the United Nation Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Africa, visited the city of Goma today in the conflict-riven east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she pressed the importance of implementing a recently-signed regional peace agreement to end the cycles of conflict and crisis in the region. MONUSCO
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
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
Herve Ladsous, the head of the United Nations Peacekeeping operations briefs the Council on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. UNTV
The fighting that began last week in the town of Kitchanga in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'s North Kivu Province, is still ongoing. Thousands of the town's inhabitants—mostly women, children, and the elderly—have fled in fear, taking only their few belongings and their cattle. People who are unable to flee are seeking refuge in [...]
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the Security Council to authorize the deployment of a special force within the current United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to address imminent threats to peace and security. UNTV
A plane crash in Goma last night killed seven people, three men survived and were taken to the hospital. Some of MONUSCO’s offices near the crash site got hit by flying debris, which damaged some roofs and UN Vehicles, but did not cause any human casualties on the ground. MONUSCO
The United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (MONUSCO) Engineering Section in collaboration with the Congolese Airports Authority is to build a security parameter wall/fence around the airport of Goma. MONUSCO
Ahead of a new peace deal for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to be signed this weekend, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the DRC, Roger Meece, warned that the security situation is unstable, and urged the Security Council to provide the necessary support for an additional military brigade within the current [...]