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The MONUSCO/FARDC joint command centre at Goma airport sits across from the base of the MONUSCO contingent from Uruguay (URUBATT), the later located at the eastern flanks of the airport ...

Crowds on Monday stormed a MONUSCO headquarters and supply base in Goma, the chief city in North Kivu province, and the protests spread on Tuesday to Beni and Butembo to the north. Butembo police ...

United Nations blue helmets from Morocco man their position on a MONUSCO base outside Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Aug. 28, 2024. Credit: AP/Moses Sawasawa A July truce brokered by ...

Soldiers were deployed on the road leading to the MONUSCO base in Beni, which lies about 350 kilometres (215) miles north of Goma, while protesters burned tyres. Security forces also dispersed ...

According to MONUSCO, some 1,400 people - mostly soldiers - have taken refuge in its Goma base since late January. "In view of the complexity of the operation and the risks associated with it ...

The United Nations said that three of its peacekeepers were killed in ongoing anti-U.N. protests that turned violent in eastern Congo on Tuesday, while several civilians were also killed in the ...

She said nearly 2,000 civilians are sheltering at U.N. peacekeeping bases in Goma and that “our bases ... with the U.N. mission, known as MONUSCO, are operating under limited movements imposed ...

The Uruguayan KIA soldier was identified as Rodolfo Álvarez, who was a member of the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission (MONUSCO ... Goma, in addition to guarding the UN Logistics Base housing ...

Armed police and soldiers were patrolling Beni in jeeps and a highway leading out of the town towards several MONUSCO bases was heavily guarded. Relative calm had also returned to Goma ...

Last year, it established new bases between the frontlines and about 600,000 displaced people sheltering around Goma. It is training ... the civilians, the MONUSCO would have changed its stance ...