UN peacekeeper killed, one other injured in assault on helicopter in DR Congo

A United Nations peacekeeper from South Africa was killed and one other wounded in an assault on their helicopter within the jap Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday, the organisation mentioned.

Congo,UPDATED: Feb 6, 2023 00:26 IST

United Nations (U.N.) helicopters wait on the runway at Goma airport towards the backdrop of the lively volcano, Mount Nyiaragongo (Photo: Reuters/File)

By India Today Web Desk: A United Nations peacekeeper from South Africa has been killed and one other wounded in an assault on their helicopter within the jap Democratic Republic of Congo. Following the assault, east African leaders on Saturday at a rare summit referred to as for a right away ceasefire within the area to seek out methods of restoring peace, AFP reported.

The seven-nation East African Community (EAC) hosted the talks in Burundi. For the previous a number of years, the militias have plagued the mineral-rich jap DRC, a lot of them a legacy of regional wars that flared through the Nineteen Nineties and the early 2000s.

In an try to calm the raging battle, the EAC, on the forefront, is main mediation efforts to finish the combating within the huge central African nation. The M23 insurgent group has seized chunks of territory and are available inside miles of the east’s essential business hub Goma since November 2021.

The resurgent M23 has taken management of swathes of land within the mineral-rich east and combating is continuous regardless of a peace roadmap hammered out in Angola final July, and the deployment of an East African Community pressure in November.

The DRC is awash with minerals and valuable stones, however the a long time of struggle and continual mismanagement imply that little of the huge wealth trickles right down to the inhabitants of some 100 million.

In July final 12 months, two Border Security Force personnel, who had been a part of the UN peacekeeping mission in Congo, had been killed throughout violent protests. The two troopers had been a part of MONUSCO – the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission within the DR Congo.

(With inputs from AFP)

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Feb 6, 2023