According to a United Nations report by Charles Bambara, seven rebels were killed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by UN peacekeepers on Thursday in an attempt to assuage inter-ethnic tensions. Eleven other rebels were wounded, while the rest fled.
From the UN Force Intervention Brigade, members of Kobo and Nande militia were shot after preventing aid workers from handing out food to civilians in a displacement camp in Buleusa. The UN troops suffered no casualties.
Congo faces pervasive inter-ethnic rivalries, which have led to the rise of conflicts of rebel groups over the last twenty years, with millions of lives lost.