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Eight peacekeepers were wounded during battles between the Congolese army and its allies against the “March 23” movement in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo city of Sake.
Bentou Keita, head of the UN Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), condemned the March 16th attack on peacekeepers in Sake, a strategic roadblock to Goma, the capital of Congo’s North Kivu province.
Keita explained that the deployment of peacekeepers was part of the Operation Springbuk in North Kivu “several weeks ago,” announcing that one of his soldiers was seriously injured.
The United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) has been present for 25 years and currently has 15,000 troops and began withdrawing from the country at the end of February, as Congolese authorities seek to complete the withdrawal of peacekeepers by the end of this year.
For his part, the spokesman for the Congolese army in North Kivu accused the Rwandan army of targeting the site of the United Nations mission during the clashes that took place between the Congolese army and the “M-23”.
The Tutsi-dominated Mars 23 movement, which emerged in 2012 and is a rebel group that briefly captured Goma before being defeated by the army the following year with the support of UN peacekeepers.
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