South Sudanese refugees release 16 UN staff held hostage in Congo Photo: A civilian talks to peacekeepers serving in the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Kinshasa, April 10, 2017 (UN)
The United Nations said Tuesday that 16 of its staff members initially taken hostage by unarmed South Sudanese refugees at a refugee camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been freed unharmed.The UN peacekeeping department said in a statement that South Sudanese refugees took 13 of its staff members hostage and demanded that they be relocated to another country to avoid their forced return to South Sudan. The UN further said the refugees are among a group of 530 who had fled South Sudan last year and have been staying at the UN camp in Munigi, north of the provincial capital Goma. The majority of those who fled were part of the armed opposition group allied to South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar, who fled the country after clashes with government forces in Juba last year.The former rebel soldiers preferred to be relocated to Kenya, Uganda or Ethiopia.Share this -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14orNo_JE8WOx2gn6EHeoZ8u7k8%2Baub7uQQ0rxeWP5%2B4tsA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
