Content_paragraphs:  In South Kivu, from mid-December to the beginning of January, MONUSCO
  
  facilitated intercommunal dialogue meetings in Uvira, Mikenge and Bijombo. The
  
  Mission also conducted, in coordination with FARDC, long-range and aerial patrols
  
  to deter confrontations between community-based armed groups. On 29 January,
  
  MONUSCO deployed a standing combat deployment in Kipupu to enable the launch
  
  of human rights investigations. In Shabunda and Walungu territories, the Mission
  
  undertook immediate response and preventive actions, including the establishment of
  
  standing combat deployments in Byangama and Kigulube, to deter armed group
  
  in-fighting and facilitate the return of internally displaced persons. These actions also
  
  enabled the deployment of two joint protection teams that provided assistance to
  
  survivors of sexual violence, in partnership with the Fondation Panzi. Similarly, the
  
  deployment of a standing combat deployment in Kulwa contributed to securing
  
  humanitarian actors access to assist internally displaced persons.