United Nations vehicles were attacked in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Con

Mondo International Updated on 2024-02-12

According to Reuters Kinshasa on February 10, the head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MINUSTUS) said that the mission's staff and vehicles were attacked in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), on the 10th, and the worsening security crisis in the east has exacerbated the impact on the mission.

Crowds of motorbikes gather in the riverside Gombe district, home to the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MINUSTAC) and many embassies. A Reuters correspondent said they burned tires and attacked people.

The head of MINUSCO, Bintu Keita, posted online that some of the mission's vehicles had been burned. "I strongly condemn this series of attacks," she said. ”

According to the Embassy of Côte d'Ivoire, a vehicle of the Embassy was damaged in Kinshasa and that vehicles of the Embassy and international organizations were attacked indiscriminately.

** The advance of the armed "M23 Movement" threatens Goma, a strategic city in the eastern part of the conflict-torn province of North Kivu, exacerbating a decades-long security and humanitarian crisis that has forced more than 1350,000 people fled to areas near Goma that were considered safer. (Compiled by Liu Baiyun).

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