Police fire tear gas, arrest demonstrators against Monusco in DRC
10 April 2021 |
11:18 am
Police in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, fire tear gas and arrest demonstrators calling for the departure of the UN's MONUSCO peacekeeping mission, who they accuse of having failed to stop civilian massacres.
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