Congo-Kinshasa: Attack On Civilian Convoy in Fataki Foiled By Monusco and FARDC

press release

With the support of the Congolese National Police (PNC) and Uruguayan peacekeepers of MONUSCO, the Congolese army (FARDC), foiled Friday 10 July 2020 an attack by Codeco militiamen against a large convoy of civilian vehicles at Jitso, a village located 15 kilometers from the Fataki shopping center, in Djugu territory, on the "Route Nationale 27, Ituri province.

Sources on the spot claim that the militiamen had camped for two days in this village planning to attack this convoy of a hundred vehicles. Alerted a few hours before the vehicles arrived at the scene of the ambush, FARDC contacted MONUSCO, which promptly dispatched a Fataki-based force patrolling there.

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