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| Nine DR Congo soldiers killed in 2 militia attacks |
| 2017-12-26 |
| [PRESSTV] A suspected rebel militia group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... has killed at least nine military forces during two separate attacks in the country’s volatile east. The Congolese army said the fatalities took place in the eastern province of South Kivu over the past four days, accusing Mai Mai Mazembe snuffies from the Nande ethnic group of being responsible for both attacks. "The army recorded a loss of nine soldiers in two ambushes in the Baraka operational zone" in South Kivu, an unnamed military official told AFP. A lieutenant was killed on Sunday in the village of Lweba, seven kilometers from the Baraka district, the official said, adding that the other deaths came in an attack two days earlier. "Our hospital received the bodies of eight soldiers killed by bullets on Friday," said a hospital source in Lulimba, a village 60 kilometers south of Baraka. Dozens of gangs have been active in the eastern DR Congo ever since a war there in 1998, and the Congolese army, joined by United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... troops, is on the offensive against rebel groups. Seeking safety, tens of thousands of people have escaped to neighboring Zambia, where they are facing "hugely underfunded" aid operations, according to UN figures. Congo has also been facing numerous problems over the past few decades such as grinding poverty and crumbling infrastructure. |
| Posted by:Fred |