Nigeria: UN Appoints Nigerian As Special Investigator for Killing of Burundians

17 January 2018

The UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, has appointed a retired Nigerian lieutenant general, Chikadibia Obiakor, to lead a special investigation into the killing of some Burundian refugees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN Secretary-General in New York, announced this in a statement issued in New York.

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