“Reinforcements are being mobilised,” he said.Īt a news conference in the DRC’s capital Kinshasa, government spokesman Patrick Muyaya said that about 15 people, including three peacekeepers, had been killed in the recent unrest and 61 people wounded. Morocco’s army also released a statement confirming that one Moroccan peacekeeper had been shot dead, with 20 of the North African country’s MONUSCO contingent also wounded during recent unrest.įarhan Haq, a UN spokesman, warned reporters in New York that the situation on the ground is “very volatile”. “Assailants violently snatched weapons from elements of the Congolese National Police and fired at point-blank range at our peacekeepers,” MONUSCO said, adding that it “strongly condemns” the attack. MONUSCO stated on Tuesday that one soldier and two military police officers serving with the UN had been killed in an attack on its base in Butembo. Anger has been fuelled by perceptions that MONUSCO, the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is failing to do enough to stop attacks by armed groups.Ĭrowds on Monday stormed a MONUSCO headquarters and supply base in Goma, the chief city in North Kivu province, and the protests spread on Tuesday to Beni and Butembo to the north.īutembo police chief Colonel Paul Ngoma said three peacekeepers there – two Indians and a Moroccan – had been killed and another injured, while seven demonstrators had died and several others were wounded.ĪLSO READ | ADF rebels kill nine civilians in eastern DRC

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