Luca Attanasio (above) died of wounds after a World Food Programme (WFP) convoy came under fire near Goma. [AFP]Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo was killed on Monday when a UN convoy came under attack in the troubled east, DRC sources and the government in Rome said. According to the Italian foreign ministry, the ambassador and the policeman were with a convoy of MONUSCO, the UN peacekeeping mission in Congo. Attanasio is the second European ambassador to have been killed while serving in the DRC. In January 1993, French ambassador Philippe Bernard was killed during riots in Kinshasa sparked by troops opposing dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.

Source: Standard Digital February 22, 2021 14:31 UTC