Militia fighters in DR Congo have decapitated about 40 police officers in an ambush in the central province of Kasai, local officials say.<\/p>\n
Fighters from the Kamwina Nsapu group attacked a police convoy.<\/p>\n
Six policemen who spoke the local Tshiluba were freed, but the rest were killed, Kasai Assembly President Francois Kalamba said.<\/p>\n
The unrest in Kasai began last August, when security forces killed the Kamwina Nsapu leader.<\/p>\n
Friday’s attack targeted a police convoy travelling between Tshikapa and Kananga.<\/p>\n
The state Governor Alexis Nkande Myopompa said an investigation had been launched into the killings.<\/p>\n
The UN says 400 people have been killed and 200,000 displaced in the Kasai region since Jean-Pierre Pandi, the Kamwina Nsapu leader, was killed.<\/p>\n
This came two months after Kamwina Nsapu launched a bid, in June 2016, for him to be officially recognised as a local chief and for state bodies to withdraw from the region.<\/p>\n
The UN says it has identified 10 mass graves where those killed in the unrest have been buried, as well as another seven suspected mass burial sites.<\/p>\n
Two UN experts, an American and a Swede, were kidnapped in the area two weeks ago with four Congolese colleagues and are still missing.<\/p>\n
DR Congo is in a state of increasing political uncertainty as President Joseph Kabila remains in power beyond the end of his mandate ,which expired last December.<\/p>\n
Elections are now due to be held before the end of this year, but no firm date has been set.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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