From yesterday morning I have been trying to contact a lot of my contemporaries with an aim of trying to understand what is really behind CODECO,it seems thus militia group is deep rooted in the societies of Ituri,but the biggest question is"does the DRC gorvenment know this?what does MONUSCO exhaustively say about CODECO?? Has FARDC failed to uproot them?
...This is what happened in the night of Friday to Saturday.....

Civil society in chiefdom of Bahema Badgere, Djugu territory reports 12 civilians killed in attacks attributed to CODECO militiamen, between Friday and Saturday June 27, 2020.
“Around 3 pm on Friday, in the village, they killed 4 people including the village chief and a midwife who works in a local health center, before also injuring 1 man. The night of that same Friday to Saturday, they attacked the villages of Kodjo and Mbata where they killed 8 people "as  reported by Molodra Désiré, coordinator of this citizen structure.
Mr. Molodra pleads for a sufficient deployment of FARDC soldiers in certain villages such as Goba and Nzalda where there is no presence of the police.
However ,up to now,the FARDC army has not yet given more substantiated information about this attack,but the civilians confirmed the attack.
The militia of CODECO active for 3 years in the province of Ituri, multiplied atrocities against the civil populations which made several hundreds of deaths since the beginning of the current year, acts that the criminal court international ICC describes as "likely to constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity".

LUCHA calls for investigations on the killings by ADF-NALU and CODECO in ITURI

LUCHA, Lutte pour le Changement, expresses its deep concern at the deterioration of security in Ituri and North Kivu. Crimes that should not go unpunished.
In a press briefing held this Friday June 26, 2020 in Bunia, this citizen movement, in a series of recommendations to international and national decision-makers, suggests opening an international investigation to identify and punish the perpetrators of these serious crimes in two provinces.
"An independent, impartial, transparent and swift international investigation is needed to establish the facts and the responsibility for the killings, mutilations, kidnappings, destruction and looting perpetrated in the Beni region and in Ituri since the recent wave of violence. This investigation should focus in particular on the identification of the actors in the massacres and other serious acts, on the role of the Congolese civil and military authorities (…) "read their press release.
Beyond the judicial aspect, this civic structure through its communication unit in Ituri, also wishes efforts on the security, humanitarian and reconciliation levels.
"There is an urgent need to establish an international military force, reinforced in troops and resources, with the mandate of ensuring the effective protection of civilians, tracking down the perpetrators of the massacres, and stabilizing Ituri and Beni on the model of the Artémis operation in 2003 ”.
In Ituri, since 2017, the mystical-religious movement of CODECO has been the source of insecurity in Djugu and Mahagi. The Beni region of North Kivu is insecure due to the activism of the ADF / NALU rebels nearly 6 years ago, where civilians are killed and abducted, houses burned and looted.
In the two provinces, the humanitarian situation remains precarious with a very high number of displaced people, sometimes without any assistance.
A few days ago, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, expressed concern about investigating the atrocities of Djugu and Mahagi, in Ituri.

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Among the sectors hard hit by Corona pandemic is education!! In our country,Students and pupils are at this time not sure if they will continue with their education this year.However,the gorvenment has assured the country of the commencement of schools in coming month.The most hardly hit in this sector are childrenbof poor people and those from poor villages where it has been too hard to access education means that can be readily available and availed to students and pupils from rich families and urban areas.The issue using TVs and radios to carry out teaching or revisions is more favourable to students in rich families and from urban areas.Even if it was the accessiblity of learning materials over the Internet,this again favours the students from rich families and those from towns due to the reasons you all know.There has been a feeling that even the enforcement of covid19 directives was more harsh in these upcountry areas than in towns,and as a result parents and students were and are not in condusive modes and moods to carry on individual studies.
We have seen government instill measures and carry on education programs on Radios and ts or via the internet,but all this only favours the students from urban area and from rich families to a bigger extent!!!

However as you are still in this lockdown these links can provide good information, education materials ...that can help you.
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MTN,Orange,Vodacom and Airtel teamed up to launch a healthy digital platform meant to reach more than 600 million mobile phone subscribers across this continent.

 MTN, Vodacom, Airtel and Orange are the africa's telecommunications giants behind the newly launched digital health platform designed to reach more than 600 million mobile phone subscribers across this continent.
The  aims of this platform is to mitigate the health and economic impact of COVID-19 and it is fully suppprted by United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is behind the Africa Communication and Information Platform (ACIP) for Health and Economic Action which describes the platform, which was launched on 23 June 2020, as two-way communication between citizens and health authorities, adding that it has the potential to reach 80% of Africa’s  mobile phone subscribers.
You can read a full dossier here

Local chief pleads to MONUSCO to establish bases in mwanga, Solowa and Tseli in ITURI to protect DRC civilians from rebel attacks

Thursday, June 25, 2020 as part of a mission to assess the role of Monusco in the protection of civilians, Zorabo Lemy Jonas, chief of chiefdom of Baboa-Bokoe located about ten kilometers northwest of Bunia has pleaded for the installation of a military base in the locality of Mwanga several times targeted by the attacks of the militiamen of CODECO.
"We need a Monusco base in Mwanga, Solowa and Tseli where there are often attacks by CODECO attackers", he said.
The customary authority has also invited the peacekeepers to step up their patrols and also fund some development projects in this area.
For his part Atiminedi Utundeni, in charge of gender, family and children in this chiefdom has prohibited the local population from carrying out defamation campaigns against the UN soldiers who are often wrongly accused of supporting the enemies of peace by providing them weapons and ammunition.
Last month, several voices were raised in Ituri demanding the departure of Monusco, in particular civil society and the caucus of parliamentarians from this province, believing that the UN mission was not doing enough to protect civilians.

12 FRDC soldiers of the naval base in kasenyi face sentence of 10 years.

12 soldiers from the naval force based in Kasenyi, each receive 10 years of sentence. Sentence pronounced by the military court garrison of Ituri, this Thursday, June 25, 2020, sitting in a fairground.
Among the 12 soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC), 3 were sentenced pay penalty. All will have to pay 150,000 Congolese legal fees to the public treasury. However, due to lack of evidence, a master was acquitted by the same court.
They are mainly prosecuted by the organ of the law for in particular, violation of instructions, rebellion and dissipation of munitions of war, affirms the military spokesman in Ituri, lieutenant Jules Ngongo.
Note that this trial in matters of flagrancy was opened on Wednesday June 24 in Kasenyi, locality bordering Lake Albert, after these soldiers dissatisfied with the death of their leader in an ambush set by the CODECO militia, fired shots fire in the air. Situation which was the basis of a psychosis in this region.

North Kivu and ituri declared free of Ebola prior to recent rumours of probable cases !

It was during a press conference held this Thursday, June 25, 2020 at the government hotel that the Minister of Public Health declared the end of the Ebola epidemic in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, more particularly in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri.
The minister said that the victory over this long epidemic also comes from the result of international cooperation through its partners.
The 10th epidemic had resurfaced in April in Beni, the last healing dates back 57 days.
For the moment, the Ebola epidemic still remains in the western part of the DRC, more precisely in the province of Equateur where the medical profession is working hard to eradicate this epidemic, said the Minister of health Eteni Longondo.