Content_paragraphs:  The Special Representative engaged with the Congolese authorities at all levels, 
  
  while maintaining dialogue with civil society groups, including demonstrators and 
  
  organizers, and local journalists, to defuse tensions and reaffirm the commitment of 
  
  MONUSCO to protecting civilians. The Mission also held meetings with traditional 
  
  authorities, women leaders and youth leaders to discuss joint efforts to ensure security 
  
  and protect civilians. In addition, MONUSCO and humanitarian actors intensified 
  
  communication activities to counter misinformation, hate speech and incitement to 
  
  violence. By the end of April, economic activity and humanitarian operations had 
  
  resumed as popular support for the demonstrations subsided. However, the social and 
  
  economic paralysis triggered by the unrest heightened intercommunal tensions in 
  
  North Kivu, especially between the Kumu and Nande communities. On 13 April, in 
  
  Buhene, Nyiragongo territory, during an intervention aimed at dispersing an 
  
  intercommunal clash, FARDC soldiers caused the death of five men from the Nande 
  
  community and three others from the Kumu community. With the involvement of the 
  
  Congolese authorities, intercommunal tensions receded but the perception of an 
  
  inadequate security response persists.