Tanzanian Soldiers Killed In DR Congo Missile Attack

According to reports, Tanzanian soldiers were killed in DR Congo missile attack on Saturday. The attack which occurred on Saturday took the lives of many Tanzanian soldiers.

A mortar attack in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo killed three troops from a southern African military unit. All the people that perished were from Tanzania. Three others were injured.

“Hostile” missile fire “fell near the camp where they were staying,” the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) reported on Monday.

According to a BBC source, the attack occurred on Saturday at a Tanzanian soldiers’ outpost in Sake. Sadc has not validated these details or revealed who was behind the attack on its soldiers.

The Congolese government asked the southern African regional force last year to halt rising insecurity caused by various rebel factions fighting for control of territory and eastern DR Congo’s vast natural resources.

Chief among them is the M23 rebel group, which Rwanda has been widely accused of supporting, including by UN experts, though Kigali has consistently denied this. In turn, it accuses the Congolese army of working with the FDLR, a militia linked to some of those responsible for Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, an accusation that Kinshasa denies.

Following a hiatus in action, the renowned M23 rebel organization resurfaced in 2021 and currently controls vast portions of North Kivu province.

In recent months, hundreds of people have left the growing violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Many people have sought refuge in the region’s biggest city of Goma, which some worry the M23 would seize, like it did in 2012.

Pressure has increased on the DR Congo government since it ordered the huge UN peacekeeping deployment to leave the nation by the end of 2024.

In December, Sadc sent a total of 2,900 soldiers to North Kivu region to confront the M23 insurgents. Sadc announced on Monday that a South African soldier died in hospital while being treated for health issues. In February, a mortar bombardment killed two South African soldiers in North Kivu province.

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