{"id":80470,"date":"2020-06-24T15:49:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T07:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=80470"},"modified":"2020-06-24T15:51:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T07:51:21","slug":"indonesian-peacekeeper-killed-in-eastern-dr-congo-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=80470","title":{"rendered":"Indonesian peacekeeper killed in eastern DR Congo: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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An Indonesian engineering unit and Tanzanian battalion from the UN Mission in DRC, MONUSCO, inspect a bridge in Beni<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BENI (DR Congo), June 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — An Indonesian soldier with the United Nations’ peacekeeping mission in DR Congo was killed, and a second was injured, in a militia attack late Monday in the country’s troubled east, the UN said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their patrol was attacked around 20 kilometres from the city of Beni in North Kivu province, Sy Koumbo, a communications officer with the MONUSCO peacekeeping force, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A Blue Helmet died and another is wounded but not seriously. He is in a stable condition,” she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement, MONUSCO chief Leila Zerrougui condemned the attack, which she said was carried out by “suspected members of the ADF” – the Allied Democratic Forces, a notorious armed group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The soldier had been helping to build a bridge in the Hululu area, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A UN Security Council statement condemned “in the strongest terms all attacks and provocations against MONUSCO,” and pressed Congolese authorities “to swiftly investigate this attack and bring the perpetrators to justice.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ADF is a mainly Muslim movement that originated in neighbouring Uganda in the 1990s, opposed to the rule of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1995, it moved into the DRC, which became its base of operations, although it has not carried out attacks inside Uganda for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to UN figures, it has killed more than 500 people since the end of October, when the Congolese army launched an offensive against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ADF killed 15 UN troops at their base near the Ugandan border in December 2017, and seven in an ambush in December 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although its connection to the Daesh group has never been proven, the group’s central African region unit claimed responsibility for the latest attack in a statement seen by the specialised Site Intelligence Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in early September that the ADF was probably part of a network that extended from Libya through the Sahel region to Lake Chad, and was also present in Mozambique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even without formal ties, Guterres said Daesh links with the ADF clearly exist. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Indonesian engineering unit and Tanzanian battalion from the UN Mission in DRC, MONUSCO, inspect a bridge in Beni BENI (DR Congo), June 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — An Indonesian soldier with the United Nations’ peacekeeping mission in DR Congo was killed, and a second was injured, in a militia attack late Monday in the country’s troubled east, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":80476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80470"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}