{"id":33209,"date":"2017-03-15T09:04:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T09:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/swede-among-two-un-experts-kidnapped-in-drc\/"},"modified":"2017-03-15T09:04:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T09:04:56","slug":"swede-among-two-un-experts-kidnapped-in-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/swede-among-two-un-experts-kidnapped-in-drc\/","title":{"rendered":"Swede among two UN experts kidnapped in DRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A Swedish citizen is among two UN experts missing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.}<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two members of the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo are reported missing in that country,&#8221; the UN said on Monday, adding that it is doing &#8220;everything possible&#8221; to locate them.<\/p>\n<p>The Swede as well as an American UN worker and four Congolese nationals accompanying them were kidnapped on Sunday in the province of Kasa\u00ef-Central, according to the DRC government.<\/p>\n<p>Congolese security forces and the UN&#8217;s MONUSCO mission in the DRC spent Monday using helicopters to look for the missing people, but were unable to do so, and resumed the search on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re using all available resources. The search is still ongoing, they are still missing. We still don&#8217;t have any proof that they have been kidnapped or killed. We&#8217;re looking in the area and hope to find them alive,&#8221; MONUSCO communications head Charles Bambara told Swedish news agency TT.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden&#8217;s Foreign Ministry (UD) said on Tuesday morning that there was nothing new to report on the missing Swede.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no new information from what was said yesterday. There is a Swede being looked for in Congo. But we won&#8217;t go into details about how the search is going,&#8221; UD press spokesperson Patric Nilsson told The Local.<\/p>\n<p>UD has since 2006 advised against travelling to the DRC, where there is a conflict between security forces and militias.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18757 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/e73418acaf6f609b3182dd6b8bf921ac10279b856514017990c76c990ccb68a4.jpg\" alt=\"A file photo of MONUSCO UN soldiers in the DRC.\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:The Local <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A Swedish citizen is among two UN experts missing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.} &#8220;Two members of the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo are reported missing in that country,&#8221; the UN said on Monday, adding that it is doing &#8220;everything possible&#8221; to locate them. 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