You know that wild, wild east Congo is a deadly place for Congolese women and girls. But it can be a deadly place for humanitarian aid workers, too.
Humanitarian Relief - Change.org: Aid Workers Killed in Congo, Afghanistan.
The aid agency Caritas has just announced that one of their staff was killed in Congo last week. According to Caritas:
"Ricky Agusa Sukaka, 27, was shot dead in Musezero, North Kivu, on the way home from work on the afternoon of 15 July. When his colleagues found him, his pockets had been emptied and his Secours Catholique-Caritas France t-shirt removed.
Villagers reported seeing Mr Sukaka, who was a Congolese national, stopped by two men wearing Congolese army uniforms before he was killed."
The situation in eastern Congo - and particularly in North Kivu - is not-good, to say the least. According to a recent Oxfam survey, 80% of respondents reported that security was worse now than a year ago.
Aid workers are not immune - for the number and location of attacks against aid workers from January through the end of May, see here. That said, Mr. Sukaka is the first aid worker killed in the DRC this year.
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