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Feb
15
2024
By The African Mirror
Italian judge rules U.N. staffers cannot be tried over Congo deaths

Italian judge rules U.N. staffers cannot be tried over Congo deaths

NEWS
AN Italian judge has ruled that two employees of a U.N. agency cannot be tried over the deaths of the Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, his bodyguard and a driver in 2021 because they have diplomatic immunity. Luca Attanasio, bodyguard Vittorio Iacovacci and their driver Mustapha Milambo were killed during a botched kidnapping on a road in eastern Congo as they were heading toward a World Food Programme (WFP) project. Rome prosecutors had requested a trial for Rocco Leone and Mansour Luguru Rwagaza, who at the time of the attack were respectively the deputy chief of the…
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Apr
09
2023
By The African Mirror
DRC: Italian envoy’s killers jailed for life

DRC: Italian envoy’s killers jailed for life

NEWS
SONIA ROLLEY A Democratic Republic of Congo military court sentenced six men to life in prison over the death of the Italian ambassador, his bodyguard and driver, according to a lawyer. Envoy Luca Attanasio, Italian bodyguard Vittorio Iacovacci and their Congolese driver Mustapha Milambo were killed on February 22, 2021, during a botched kidnapping as they drove to a World Food Programme project from the eastern city of Goma. A lawyer representing Italy, Boniface Balamage, told Reuters that five of the people sentenced to life were already in prison while one was at large and tried in absentia. "On the…
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Feb
26
2021
By The African Mirror
Violence is endemic in eastern Congo: what drives it

Violence is endemic in eastern Congo: what drives it

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
ON February 23, the Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Luca Attanasio, his bodyguard Vittorio Iacovacci and their driver Mustapha Milambo were killed in eastern Congo. They were part of a convoy that travelled from the World Food Programme’s compound in Goma, eastern Congo. PEER SCHOUTEN, Postdoctoral fellow, Danish Institute for International Studies The convoy took a road that forms the eastern border of the Virunga Park – a national park famous for its wild mountain gorillas. The cars were stopped at gunpoint at a place called 3 Antennas near Kibumba, and Milambo was shot; the other…
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Feb
26
2021
By The African Mirror
State funeral for envoy, bodyguard

State funeral for envoy, bodyguard

NEWS
ITALY yesterday held a state funeral for its ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo and his bodyguard killed in an ambush that a cardinal said should prompt everyone to "hear the cry" of a people devastated by violence. Luca Attanasio, 43, and Vittorio Iacovacci, 30, were shot dead after being kidnapped while travelling in a United Nations' World Food Programme convoy to visit a school feeding project on Monday. WFP driver Mustapha Milambo was also killed. The funeral, attended by Prime Minister Mario Draghi and other ministers, was held in the Basilica of St Mary of the Angels and…
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Feb
25
2021
By The African Mirror
Strict rules for foreign diplomats’ travel

Strict rules for foreign diplomats’ travel

NEWS
HEREWARD HOLLAND DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo's government has required foreign diplomats to inform it of their movements outside the capital Kinshasa following the killing of the Italian ambassador. Ambassador Luca Attanasio, his bodyguard Vittorio Iacovacci and World Food Programme driver Mustapha Milambo were killed by armed men on Monday while travelling in a WFP convoy in the east of the country. President Felix Tshisekedi met his top security advisors on Tuesday to discuss responses to the attack. "Ambassadors and other heads of missions can no longer leave Kinshasa for the interior of the country without informing the head of Congolese…
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Feb
23
2021
By The African Mirror
DRC armed group deny killing Italian envoy

DRC armed group deny killing Italian envoy

NEWS
FISTON MAHAMBA and STANIS BUJAKERA  AN armed group in eastern Congo, accused by the government of carrying out an ambush on a United Nations convoy in which Italy's ambassador and two other people were killed, has denied any involvement in the attack. Congo's interior ministry on Monday blamed a Hutu militia called the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), which is active near where ambassador Luca Attanasio, 43 and his bodyguard Vittorio Iacovacci, 30, were shot. World Food Programme driver Mustapha Milambo was also killed, local officials said. The FDLR was founded by senior Rwandan officers and militiamen…
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