{"id":32159,"date":"2022-08-02T10:02:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T07:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=32159"},"modified":"2022-08-02T10:02:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T07:02:47","slug":"peacekeepers-arrested-in-dr-congo-from-tanzania-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/02\/peacekeepers-arrested-in-dr-congo-from-tanzania-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Peacekeepers arrested in DR Congo from Tanzania &#8211; UN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peacekeepers who were arrested on Sunday for shooting two people dead on the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda were from Tanzania, a senior UN official has told the BBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UN has strongly condemned the shooting, in which 15 people were injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past week at least 20 people have died during violent protests against the UN peacekeeping mission, known as Monusco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many Congolese accuse it of failing to protect people from attacks by rebels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Sunday&#8217;s shooting will further tarnish the reputation of the UN force, correspondents say the Congolese military has also come under criticism for failing to bring security to a region where dozens of armed groups operate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC News Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peacekeepers who were arrested on Sunday for shooting two people dead on the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda were from Tanzania, a senior UN official has told the BBC. The UN has strongly condemned the shooting, in which 15 people were injured. Over the past week at least 20 people have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":32161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[3875,7751],"class_list":["post-32159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo-2","tag-un-peace-keeping-mission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32162,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32159\/revisions\/32162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}