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The Mbandaka Military Garrison Tribunal delivered its verdict in the case of the 3rd and 4th July 2005 mutiny: eight convicts received a life sentence, 20 others short-term sentences and the only female convict was sentenced…
On 12 May 2006, Mai Mai chief « Gédéon », whose real name is Kyungu Mutanga, surrendered to MONUC Blue Helmets stationed in Mitwaba, about 300 km north of Lubumbashi, in Katanga province. This warlord, who was accompanied by…
On 10th May 2006, following allegations of the presence of armed groups leaders, MONUC Moroccan battalion led cordon-and-search operations in the Nyakasanza area of the town of Bunia, the administrative center for the Ituri…
MONUC was pleased to learn that Ignace Murwanashyaka, leader of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a political wing of the Ex-FAR and Interahamwe armed groups, involved in the Rwandan genocide in 1994…
This morning, 23 January 2006, 8 MONUC Guatemalan soldiers have been killed and 5 other injured in a firefight that took place in the Garamba Park (Haut Uélé district), in northeaster Democratic Republic of Congo. The injured…
Press Release MONUC / PIO / PR 30 / 2005 Arrival of Deputy Special Representative for the Democratic Republic of Congo Kinshasa, R.D. Congo, 11 October 2005: Mr. Haile Menkerios of Eritrea has taken his functions as Deputy…
Communiqué de Presse MONUC / PIO / PR 29 / 2005 MONUC assists DR Congo army in disarming LRA Kinshasa, R.D. Congo, 5 October 2005: Some 300 commando troops of the Congolese Armed Forces are being airlifted from Aru, 150 km…
Kinshasa, D.R Congo, 14 June 2005: A UN peacekeeper of the Indian battalion of MONUC Kivu Brigade died, on June 13, at the Mission's military hospital in Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu, in the Democratic Republic…
Original: French MONUC / PIO / PR /25 / 2005 Kinshasa, DR. Congo, 3 June 2005: A Nepalese peacekeeper of MONUC Ituri Brigade died yesterday, Thursday 2 June, at around midnight, at the Mission's military hospital in Bunia…
Kinshasa, R.D. Congo, 16 May 2005: MONUC hails the adoption, on Friday, May 13, of the Draft Constitution of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which will soon be submitted to a popular referendum. MONUC…
On 12 May 2005, at 14: 15, a patrol composed of about 40 Blue helmets from the Bangladeshi contingent of the Ituri Brigade were ambushed by a group of 20 armed elements who opened fire on the patrol. The Blue helmets…
of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Monuc's Ituri Brigade conducts joint operation with the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa, D.R. Congo, 26 April 2005: During the night of 22 April, Armed…