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Credit: Guerchom Ndebo/Getty Images STOCKHOLM / ROME, Mar 10 2021 (IPS) - On the morning of 22nd February a jeep from the World Food Programme (WFP), followed by another one with the Italian ambassador, Luca Anastasio, was driving along Route Nationale 2 passing by The Virunga National Park, an UNESCO Congolese World Heritage Site famous for its dwindling population of unique mountain gorillas. A perilous voyage, not only due to tomb-deep potholes, but especially the presence of various, extremely dangerous, armed criminals. Since most people in the area are poor it is quite common that ...

Luca Attanasio slain in assault on UN peacekeepers' convoy

    Attanasio died in hospital of gunshot wounds, a high-ranking diplomat told AFP in Kinshasa.     The envoy's car was part of a MONUSCO UN peacekeeping mission convoy including the EU's delegation chief, sources said.     The attack was an attempted robbery, rangers at Virunga National Park told various media outlets including The Jerusalem Post.     The attack took place at around 10 o'clock local (09:00 Italian time), near the town of Kanyamahoro.     Several armed groups operate in the area of the Virunga Mountains, between Congo, Rwanda and Uganda, and...

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 22 - Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Luca Attanasio, and a Carabiniere, Vittorio Iacovacci, were killed in an attack on a World Food Programme (WFP) convoy travelling from Goma to Bukavu in the African country on Monday, well-informed sources told ANSA.     Attanasio, 43, from Limbiate near Monza, died in hospital of gunshot wounds to the abdomen after arriving in hospital in critical condition, a high-ranking diplomat told AFP in Kinshasa.     The diplomat, who had spoken of setting an example in a dangerous cause, is survived by his mothe...

Winnipeg Free Press By: Alan Small | Posted: 7:00 PM CST Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021 Save to Read Later Rickson Makwe has overcome huge obstacles to make his way to Canada. His next one is starting a music career. Rickson Makwe has overcome huge obstacles to make his way to Canada. His next one is starting a music career. The 34-year-old native of the Democratic Republic of the Congo lost his eyesight when he was just 10 years old, after a bomb blast hit his school when he was playing soccer with friends. A quarter of a century later, ...