Bintou Keita has stepped down from her position as Special Representative of the Secretary-General Nations in the Democratic Republic of Congo and head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) after nearly five years. The Guinean diplomat left Kinshasa on Sunday»»»

United Nations (TDI): Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN Ambassador Munir Akram has said that there is no military solution to the conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the focus must now turn to dialogue between the parties. Addressing at the UN Security Council emergency m»»»

UNITED NATIONS, July 8 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese envoy on Monday called for efforts to push for the cessation of fighting to end the violence among armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Geng Shuang, China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, delivered a stateme»»»

ConflictsDemocratic Republic of CongoCongo: SADC soldier deaths underline concerns over missionKate HairsineThe deaths of Tanzanian soldiers raise questions about the ability of the Southern African Development Community's (SADC) mission to defeat M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo. htt»»»

.UN says all peacekeepers will leave DR Congo by end of 2024 As the Congo river burst its banks, severe flooding spread through parts of the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa. Streets in Kinshasa’s Pompage district have turned into rivers, with residents using small boats to eva»»»

The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo, which helped in the fight against rebels for more than two decades before being asked by the Congolese government to leave, will complete its withdrawal from the Central African nation by the end of 2024, the mission said Saturday. A three-phased withdrawal o»»»

DRC has asked the UN to withdraw its troops saying it has failed to protect civilians. The United Nations Peacekeeping mission has been around for more than 60 years. In that time, it has helped many countries transition from conflict to peace and stability. Its troops are deployed by member states»»»

— President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo has asked for an accelerated withdrawal of a United Nations peacekeeping mission, against a backdrop of successive anti-UN protests over its failure to rein in rebel groups more than 20 years after its deployment to the country. Parts»»»

United Nations peacekeepers made ‘gruesome discoveries’ of mass graves containing the bodies of 49 civilians in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after receiving reports of attacks on civilians by a local armed group, the UN said this week. Farhan Haq, deputy spokesperson f»»»

New Delhi [India], October 6 (ANI): Secretary (West) Ministry of External Affairs, Sanjay Verma had a fruitful discussion with UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean Pierre Lacroix on India's contributions to UN Peacekeeping on Thursday in New Delhi. "Discussions focussed on India's c»»»

In the latest spate of violence in the troubled eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a man was killed Tuesday during a protest against United Nations peacekeepers, a police spokesperson said. The U.N. troops had been passing through the town of Beni in North Kivu province when protesters on motorb»»»

Kinahsa has asked the UN peacekeeping mission, Monusco, to withdraw spokesman Mathias Gillmann over "indelicate and inappropriate remarks" he made in the wake of deadly mass protests in the eastern DRC, in which at least 36 people have died. Citing recent tensions between the peacekeeping mission a»»»

UNITED NATION: Pakistan has told the UN Security Council that it’s peacekeeping contingents serving the world body played a key role in some of the most successful transitions from conflict to peace, such as in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Burundi and Timor-Leste. “Our peacekeepers have also supported ho»»»