Beni, May 5th, 2025 (CPA)- A three-week training course for judicial actors, from May 5th to 23rd, 2025, on the fight against cybercrime opened on Monday in Beni in North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the organizers. ‘The aim of this training course is to equip participants with the skills they need to detect, analyse and effectively document cybercrime offences in strict compliance with the rule of law,’ said Monusco commander Rhafer Ahnouche, an expert in digital investigations. He pointed out that cybercrime is all acts that contravene national legislation or international treaties ratified by a State, targeting social networks or information systems and using them as a means of committing an offence or crime. ‘These are cyber offences carried out in cyberspace. Throughout the training course, we will be trying to define all the cyber-infractions and the modus operandi of the attackers’, he added. Major Rhafer pointed out that this training workshop had been designed and prepared jointly with the military judicial authorities, in particular the High Military Court and the Military Prosecutor General’s Office, to discuss the legal and technical framework of cybercrime.
‘We sought to analyse the way in which existing legislation can respond effectively to cyber-crime, using the jurisdictions of Bunia, Beni and Kinshasa as a framework for study’, he said.
He added that the aim of this approach was to include all the judicial authorities, both military and civilian, at national level, and to cover the entire judicial system of the DRC. The three-week training course is being organized by Monusco’s justice support section and run by experts from the prosecution support unit in Kinshasa. ACP/