UN aid worker killed in DR Congo’s rebel-held Goma
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France’s president said a French aid worker with UNICEF was killed, after M23 rebels said ‘combat drone’ hit the city.
A French aid worker for the United Nations children’s agency has been killed in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, France’s president said, after M23 rebels who control the city said air strikes hit a house there.
“A French humanitarian from UNICEF has been killed in Goma,” French President Emmanuel Macron said on X on Wednesday. “I call for respect for humanitarian law and for the personnel who are on the ground and who are committed to saving lives,” he added.
Goma is the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu province, a strategic city that Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized from government control in January 2025.
Since taking up arms again in 2021, M23 has captured swathes of the mineral-rich Congolese east, unleashing a fresh spiral of violence in a region long plagued by fighting.
M23 spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka said a drone attack in the early hours of Wednesday hit a residential building in the centre of Goma. He said Karine Buisset, a French national and UNICEF employee, was in the residence at the time and had been killed. The UN has yet to comment.
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