Protesters stormed a United Nations base in the eastern Congolese city of Goma on Monday, an AFP journalist said, demanding the departure of peacekeepers from the region.
Report informs, citing foreign media, that hundreds of people blocked roads and chanted anti-UN slogans before storming the headquarters of the UN peacekeeping mission in Goma, as well as a logistical base on the outskirts of the city.
The protesters smashed windows and looted computers, furniture and other valuables from the headquarters, an AFP journalist witnessed, while UN police officers fired tear gas in a bid to push them back.
Khassim Diagne, the deputy special representative of the UN secretary general to MONUSCO, told AFP that the UN is not opposed to protests but that violence is unacceptable.
“These are looters,” “We condemn them in the strongest terms."