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Italians on Tuesday mourned the death of Luca Attanasio, the Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, who was killed in an ambush with his bodyguard and their driver … Read More
Luca Attanasio died alongside an Italian soldier after their car was attacked as they traveled in a UN convoy in the eastern part of the country. “It is with deep … Read More
Italy’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and two other people have been killed in an attack on a United Nations convoy in the restive east of the … Read More
ROME — The Italian ambassador to Congo and a Carabinieri officer were killed on Monday while traveling in a United Nations convoy in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Italian … Read More
The Italian foreign ministry said Luca Attanasio and a carabinieri police officer who was providing security for him were killed in Goma. They were traveling in a UN convoy in … Read More
Some 300 survivors had been found near the scene of the accident in Mai-Ndombe province in the west of the country, but another 240 remained unaccounted for, Steve Mbikayi wrote … Read More
At least 60 people have died and hundreds more are missing after an overloaded whaling boat sank on the Congo river at night, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s humanitarian affairs … Read More
BUNIA, DR Congo: Forty-six Pygmies have been massacred in jap DR Congo’s Ituri province by the infamous Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militia, native sources mentioned on Friday. “ADF rebels overran … Read More
KINSHASA: Two public officials were sentenced to three years at hard labour after being convicted of embezzling public funds in the DR Congo on Tuesday, three days after the unprecedented … Read More
Eastern Congo has marked an official end to the second deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, which killed 2,280 people over nearly two years as armed groups and community mistrust undermined the … Read More
NAIROBI, Kenya — The second-worst Ebola outbreak in history is over, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, after nearly two years and 2,280 deaths. Efforts to fight the outbreak … Read More
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. experts say armed groups, criminal networks and some law enforcement agents in Congo are reaping vast sums of money from illegally exploiting gold and other … Read More
