Photo: MONUSCO/Alain Likota

Bukavu,  20 October 2011 – The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary –General and Head of the UN Stabilisation Mission in the DRC Congo, Roger Meece, was in Bukavu, the provincial capital of Sud-Kivu, on two-day working visit from 19 to 20 Octobre 2011, to look at the status of local preparations for the upcoming national elections. 

Photo: MONUSCO/Clara Padovan

Nord-Kivu, 17 October 2011 – As part of the activities aimed at supporting the restoration of the State Authority, MONUSCO with GIZ’s (German Agency for International Cooperation) financial assistance, has turned over to the Congolese National Police Officers assigned to the newly built infrastructures along provincial major axes, equipments for the maintenance of law and public order. 

Photo: MONUSCO/Tahina Andriamamonjitianasoa/

Sud Kivu, 17 October 2011 - The United Nations Police in the Sud Kivu province jointly with the Congolese National Police Force (PNC) is currently training 700 police officers of the Mobile Intervention Group (GMI) in the Lake Tanganyika district and Bukavu for a better policing of the electoral process.

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Goma, 5 October 2011 - Two attacks on civilians by unidentified armed men took place in the Masisi territory, Nord-Kivu province, on 30 September. The first one occurred in the village of Kitchanga, 80 km north-west of Goma, and the second in the village of Karto on the road between Mweso and Kitshanga. Alerted to these incidents, the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) launched its Quick Reaction Force from the South African contingent against the attackers. 

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Goma, 5 October 2011 - Brigadier-General, Harinder Singh, an infantry officer, arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to take over the command of Nord Kivu Brigade on 3 October 2011. His predecessor, General Chandi Prasad Mohanty, left the country three days later after more than a year of service with the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO).

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Kinshasa, 5 October 2011 – The soft spoken Brigadier-General Chandi Prasad Mohanty is on his way out of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after more than a year of service in this country with the blue helmets as Commander-in-Chief of the Nord Kivu Brigade. Ge.l Mohanty vividly remembers he date he landed in the DRC. “1st September 2010,” he simply said. Since that date, he took control of the Nord Kivu province, eastern DRC, known to be one of the most affected areas by armed groups ’ activities in the country.

Photo: Sylvain Liechti/MONUSCO

Lieutenant-General Babakar Gaye, Military Advisor to the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, visited the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from 25 to 30 September, to meet with peacekeepers of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO). In the following interview given to MONUSCO’s Radio Okapi, General Gaye tells us what his visit was about.

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Kisangani, 4 October 2011 - A two-day symposium to sensitize political parties and stakeholders on the need for peaceful elections in Province Orientale was organized by the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), in cooperation with the provincial office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Photo: Maj Ramesh Gurung/MONUSCO

Beni, 30 September 2011 – Peacekeepers of the 15th Nepalese Battalion awarded seven students their graduation certificates at a ceremony organized in Beni, Nord Kivu province, on 28 September. The graduation comes as the crowning of nine months of training in English literature and computer science at the Vocational Training Centre/Peace and Development (VTC/PD) set by the Nepalese Peacekeepers of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO).

Photo: Bilamekaso Tchagbele/MONUSCO

Bunia, 30 September 2011 – In a joint effort to help achieve peaceful elections in the Ituri district, the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) organized a two-day workshop beginning on 28 September. The training was structured around the theme: “For a peaceful electoral process in the DRC.”