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French embassy targeted in Kinshasa protests over rebel crisis in eastern DRC

People protest in the DRC's capital Kinshasa, on Tuesday, 28 January 2025, against the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels' advances into eastern Congo's capital Goma. © Samy Ntumba Shambuyi / AP

France has slammed a series of attacks on diplomatic missions in Kinshasa, fuelled by tensions over the M23 rebel conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

France has condemned attacks on its embassy in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, after angry demonstrators stormed diplomatic compounds on Tuesday, setting fires and defacing properties.

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