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This Week Around The World share February 22 Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Italian ambassador to the DRC was killed along with two others when a U.N. convoy was attacked, according to AP News. Luca Attanasio, who had been working at the Italian embassy in Congo since 2017, Carabinieri paramilitary officer Vittorio Lacovacci and their Congolese driver Moustapha Milambo were killed while on their way to visit a school as part of the World Food Program. “Yesterday I couldn’t express to his family the deep sorrow of the entire Foreign Ministry and our sincere closeness,” wrote Elisabetta Belloni, the ministry’s secretary general, according to

US Army commits to its African allies after combining Europe and Africa commands

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - 226 Major General Andrew Rohling, the US Army Southern European Task Force commanding general and US Army Europe-Africa deputy commanding general, met with Moroccan General Belkhir El Farouk, the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces Southern Zone commander. The United States Army has recently combined its Europe and Africa branches. Considering this consolidation, the US Army held a media briefing that communicated its continued commitment to its African allies. The briefing also discussed the multinational African Lion training exercise scheduled for June 2021. The first speaker, General Christopher Cavoli, Commanding General, US Army Europe and Africa (the new name for the command), spoke from the Southern European Task Force, Africa headquarters in Vicenza, Italy.

Murder of Italian diplomat jolts DR Congo s security priorities

The East African Saturday February 27 2021 The medical team picks up the bodies of Italian ambassador, his bodyguard and driver after they were killed on February 22, 2021, in Goma, DRC. PHOTO | AFP Summary Authorities in the DR Congo are now scrambling to understand whether they were victims of circumstances or the diplomat was targeted. The killing has elicited questions among diplomats and analysts, especially why the ambassador, supposed to be very well informed, chose to travel without an escort from the UN army (Monusco) and without the FARDC. Advertisement The government of President Felix Tshisekedi has ordered that ambassadors and other senior diplomats accredited to Kinshasa will only travel to the countryside after being granted permission by the government following the killing of Italian ambassador Luca Attanasio, his Italian bodyguard Vittorio Lacovacci, and Congolese UN driver Mustapha Milambo on Monday in North Kivu

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