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A Spokesperson for Secretary-General António Guterres said peacekeepers from the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo had “responded to alerts of the presence of CODECO members in several villages of Djugu territory in Ituri province,” immediately deploying to the area and “prompting the assailants to flee the scene.” UNIFEED

A UN Spokesperson said, “UN peacekeepers are conducting joint operations with the Congolese armed forces against the Allied Democratic Force (ADF), which have been perpetrating attacks northwest of Beni since 27 April.” UNIFEED

The Secretary-General expressed his solidarity and condolences to the people and governments of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda after heavy flooding killed at least 400 people since Thursday, a UN Spokesperson informed. UNIFEED

The United Nations top official in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) said, “the intensification” of the conflict in the Eastern DRC, “continues to inflict untold suffering on civilians and to worsen a humanitarian situation, which is increasingly catastrophic.” UNIFEED

The spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, updated journalists on the latest attacks by the armed CODECO group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). On Afghanistan, he said a well-known advocate for girls’ educations was arrested in Kabul on Monday. UNIFEED

The spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, told journalists in New York there is a cholera outbreak in the North Kivu province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). UNIFEED

A UN Spokesperson updated reporters on an attack in South Sudan’s Jonglei State, a string of attacks in North Kivu and Ituri in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and the launch of the Stabilization Strategy for the Central Regions in Mali. UNIFEED

The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, MONUSCO, reported that suspected Allied Democratic Forces killed at least 38 civilians, injured ten and abducted several others in two separate attacks in the North Kivu province, a UN spokesperson told reporters in New York. UNIFEED

More than 20,000 people have been displaced in North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), amid recent clashes between the Congolese army and the M23 armed group, a UN spokesperson said. UNIFEED

The Secretary-General welcomed recent engagement by the President of Angola and African Union Champion for Peace and Reconciliation, João Lourenço, with the M23, which resulted in the announcement of a ceasefire beginning on 7 March, in compliance with the decisions of the African Union Peace and Security Council on 17 February in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. UNIFEED