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By Reuters• 8 April 2021 Caption epa08891327 (18/39) An aerial photo taken with a drone shows the trade hub of Mambasa, in the Ituri Rainforest, an area of vast natural biodiversity and resources, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 19 October 2020. Mambasa lies on the road leading out from the rainforest towards Uganda, so it is a major way station for illegal animal trafficking, unregulated deforestation, and mining sites. A distinct risk for zoonotic spillover of viruses exists in a setting with exceptional governance challenges. Because economic forces and local governments are incentivized to collaborate, these factors have enabled a precarious situation where conservation is a losing battle and Congo s biodiversity posits a distinct likelihood for a new virus to jump from an animal to a human population. (Photo: EPA-EFE/Hugh Kinsella Cunningham ATTENTION EDITORS / MANDATORY CREDIT : This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center) ....
(Corrects quote in paragraph 10 and number of MONUSCO personnel in paragraph 11) BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Congolese police fired live rounds on Thursday to disperse protesters demanding the departure of the United Nations peacekeeping mission from the city of Beni, its mayor and witnesses said. Hundreds of youths have been protesting in several cities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo since Monday, angry that the U.N. mission, known as MONUSCO, has failed to prevent a wave of civilian killings by armed groups. So far this year around 330 people have been killed in the violence, an unresolved legacy of a civil war that officially ended in 2003, according to the Kivu Security Tracker, which maps unrest in the region. ....
Police fire shots to disperse anti-UN protest in eastern Congo Written by Reuters - 37 Congolese police fired live rounds on Thursday to disperse protesters demanding the departure of the United Nations peacekeeping mission from the city of Beni, its mayor and witnesses said. Hundreds of youths have been protesting in several cities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo since Monday, angry that the UN mission, known as MONUSCO, has failed to prevent a wave of civilian killings by armed groups. So far this year around 330 people have been killed in the violence, an unresolved legacy of a civil war that officially ended in 2003, according to the Kivu Security Tracker, which maps unrest in the region. ....
08 April 2021 - 14:56 By Reuters Congo s mineral-rich east has been plagued by violence for decades but killings have more than doubled in the last year, the UN says. File photo. Image: REUTERS/Yana Paskova Congolese police fired live rounds on Thursday to disperse protesters demanding the departure of the UN peacekeeping mission from the city of Beni, its mayor and witnesses said. Hundreds of youths have been protesting in several cities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo since Monday, angry that the UN mission, known as Monusco, has failed to prevent a wave of civilian killings by armed groups. So far this year about 330 people have been killed in the violence, an unresolved legacy of a civil war that officially ended in 2003, according to the Kivu Security Tracker, which maps unrest in the region. ....