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The initiative of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) aims to allow the Congolese military to “settle permanently” in the Kididwe locality which was captured from the rebel Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in 2019.

Visiting Bintou Keita, the Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), has promised to continue actions to protect civilians in the two bedeviled eastern provinces of the vast country.

In this southeastern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, against the backdrop of rivalry between armed groups, women and girls are subjected to “widespread and systematic sexual violence,” according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).