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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Police disperse anti-UN protesters in Congo amid tensions

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Police dispersed about 100 demonstrators in Congo’s eastern town of Beni on Monday, a day after U.N. peacekeepers returning to duty killed three people and wounded more than a dozen others at the border with Uganda.

Dalzon Mikundi, president of the Beni Urban Youth Council, said they want the U.N. to cover medical care for the victims wounded by U.N. peacekeepers amid the ongoing demonstrations demanding that the peacekeepers leave Congo.

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