Congo-Kinshasa: Rebels Attack UN Peacekeepers in DRC, With More Than a Dozen Dead and Scores Wounded

8 December 2017

Rebels in eastern DRC have carried out one of the deadliest attacks against UN forces in recent years. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called it "a war crime."

Rebels attacked a UN peacekeeping base in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's east on Thursday night, killing at least 14 soldiers and wounding more than 50 others.

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