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135 elements of the Senegalese gendarmerie, including 38 women, constituting SENFPU 14, arriving in the DRC to take over from their colleagues at the end of their mission. Photo MONUSCO/Marylène Seguy
- COVID-19
After 17 months in operation instead of the 12 initially planned, a first portion of the troops of the Senegalese Formed Police Unit (SENFPU 13) left Goma, North Kivu and Bunia, Ituri, to return to their home country. In the…

Bunia: The United Nations Mission has organized an awareness-raising session on respect for human rights for the actors involved in the fight against Covid-19. Photo MONUSCO/Ezechiel Muzalia
- COVID-19
Several cases of human rights violations have been reported in Ituri since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic-related health crisis. As part of the protection of the individual freedoms, the United Nations Joint Human Rights…

South-Kivu province : MONUSCO Has Provided the Provincial Government with Equipment to Fight COVID-19. PHOTO MONUSCO/Alain Likota
- COVID-19
To back the provincial government’s efforts to fitht the coronavirus disease, MONUSCO donated equipment and materials to the South-Kivu provincial government on July 17, 2020. The donated equipment and materials were received…

Fight against COVID-19: Journalists from Beni sensitized by MONUSCO and the WHO. Photo MONUSCO/Michael ALI
- COVID-19
MONUSCO Office of Strategic Communication and Public Information organized an awareness-raising activity on COVID-19 on June 12, 2020 for 20 journalists from Beni and Butembo, in the North Kivu province. The activity took…

MONUSCO raises women prisoners’ and minors’ awareness of the Covid-19 and HIV-AIDS in Bunia. Photo MONUSCO/Jean-Tobie OKALA
- COVID-19
Forty-eight female prisoners and thirty-two under-age boys detained in Bunia prison were sensitized last Thursday, June 11, by MONUSCO HIV / AIDS Section on the Covid-19 pandemic. The Awareness session focused, among other…

MONUSCO supports local masks-production initiatives against Coronavirus
- COVID-19
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, women in Beni, North-Kivu province, have come forward as key players in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus. With support from the United Nations Mission in the Democratic…
