{"id":185440,"date":"2022-07-28T12:30:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T04:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=185440"},"modified":"2022-07-28T12:30:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T04:30:16","slug":"update-dr-congo-tightens-security-in-east-after-anti-un-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=185440","title":{"rendered":"Update: DR Congo tightens security in east after anti-UN unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Demonstrators clash with police during a protest against the United Nations peacekeeping force (MONUSCO) in Sake, west of Goma<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BENI (DR Congo), July 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) —\u00a0Soldiers and armed police were deployed in several towns in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after 15 people, including three United Nations peacekeepers, were killed in anti-UN protests.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

 Crowds stormed a UN peacekeeping base and a supply centre in the city of Goma in North Kivu province on Monday, looting valuables and chanting hostile slogans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Protests quickly spread and on Tuesday, three UN peacekeepers were killed in an attack on their base in the town of Butembo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Twelve protesters have died, in addition to the peacekeepers, according to a government toll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 The UN mission in the DRC, known as MONUSCO, is one of the world’s biggest peacekeeping operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 But it has come under regular criticism in Congo’s troubled east, where many accuse it of failing to do enough to end decades-old attacks by armed groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0On Wednesday, correspondents saw tighter security in the towns of Beni and Butembo, as well as in Goma, the provincial capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Armed police and soldiers were patrolling Beni in jeeps and a highway leading out of the town towards several MONUSCO bases was heavily guarded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Relative calm had also returned to Goma, where shops were beginning to open again as security forces deployed across the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 In the town of Sake about 30 kilometres (18 miles) from Goma, Congolese police fired tear gas to disperse protesters near a UN base, which was ringed with soldiers and police officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 “We will protest until they leave,” said Jackson Kibuya, a protester in Sake, holding up a banner reading “Bye Bye MONUSCO”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0More than 120 armed groups roam the volatile region, where civilian massacres are common and conflict has displaced millions of people. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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