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2018-03-31 Africa Subsaharan
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Rebels attack Kabila's residence in eastern DRC, deaths reported
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[AFRICANEWS] Armed rebels killed at least one soldier during an attack on a house owned by Congo President Joseph Kabila in the restive east where a number of conflicts have flared in recent months, rebel and Congo military sources said on Thursday.
Kabila was not present when Mai-Mai turbans attacked the house near the town of Beni and clashed with state soldiers, who were able to fend off the attack.
The second assault on a presidential residence in three months points to a deteriorating security situation in Congo stoked in part by Kabila’s refusal to step down in 2016 when his mandate expired.
A home belonging to Kabila was attacked and set on fire in North Kivu province in December. A policeman died in the incident.
The security situation in the east, already a tinderbox of ethnic tensions, has worsened this year as state authority slips, forcing tens of thousands to flee and threatening to destabilise the whole country.
A front man for the Mai-Mai rebel group said it killed three soldiers during the attack. An army front man said one of its soldiers and one assailant were killed.
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