Kenny Katombe
Reuters
August 23, 2013
A special U.N. brigade formed to neutralize armed groups in Congo has
taken its first military action, firing artillery at rebels menacing
the border city of Goma, U.N. and Congolese military officers said on
Friday.
The force of Tanzanian, South African and Malawian soldiers was
backing the Congolese army against M23 fighters, whose brief occupation
of the city last year damaged the image of the U.N. mission in Congo and
led the Security Council to create the brigade.
The United Nations pledged in July to prevent the rebels from getting
back within range of the city of about a million people on the Rwandan
border.
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