The Rwandan authorities have announced the reopening of the main border with Uganda from next Monday, which has been closed for almost three years. The border’s reopening was announced after meeting of President Yoweri Museveni’s son Lieutenant General Muhoozi Kainerugaba and Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Cross-border movement of people and …
Read More »Funeral of Italian ambassador’s killed in DRC held
In Rome, the national funeral of Luca Attanasio, the Italian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, took place. Luca Attanasio, his Italian police bodyguard, Vittorio Iacovacci and a Congolese driver, Mustapha Milambo, were killed on Monday when the UN convoy they were travelling in was ambushed in the …
Read More »Italian ambassador’s body flown home from DR Congo
The body of the Italian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo who was killed in a botched kidnapping attempt on Monday, has been flown back to Rome. Luca Attanasio, his Italian bodyguard, Vittorio Iacovacci, and a local driver, Moustapha Milambo, were killed in an ambush on a United Nations …
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