Monusco

While demonstrations have intensified in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo to protest the massacres and insecurity and to demand the departure of MONUSCO in Kasai, the UN mission will be unpacked in June. A UN delegation arrived on Monday to assess compliance with this withdrawal plan. In Kasai, Monusco is…

In Djugu territory, Ituri province, the situation is still tense. In December, the number of attacks attributed to Codeco militia increases and the population demands a strengthening of the security system. In some areas it leaves the villages and approaches the Monusco bases. As in Roe, about 70 km from Bunia, where almost 30,000 displaced people gathered near a peacekeeping position. Charlotte is 42 years old. Since June, she has joined the makeshift camp for displaced people around the temporary base for the UN mission…

Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations in charge of peacekeeping operations, ended the mission, which began a week earlier in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday 18 December. He met with the country's political actors, including President Félix Tshisekedi, Martin Fayulu and other stakeholders in the institutional crisis that has developed. What is his view on the…

What exit strategy from the Democratic Republic of Congo for MONUSCO? The Congolese government and the UN mission have submitted a working document to the Security Council allowing for the gradual withdrawal of peacekeeping forces and the dismantling of bases. With our special correspondent in Kinshasa, Sonia RolleyThe first…