Gunmen attacked a French aid agency in volatile eastern Congo, forcing the charity to suspend operations in the region and evacuate five foreign staff, a spokesman for the aid group said Thursday. The attack on French-run Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders, occurred Tuesday at Kabati, 90 miles north of Goma, said Jean-Christophe Dolle, the charity’s director in Goma. Unidentified armed men in uniform looted money, logistical material and a car, but no one was injured, Dolle said. The French-run charity immediately suspended most of its projects in the region, an area along the Ugandan and Rwandan borders. Dolle said 160 Congolese staff were remaining to “tend to lifesaving procedures only.” Full Story
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