UN troops help 'neutralise' DR Congo militia

June 25, 2015 03:55

The United Nations has said that around a quarter of Congolese militia group the Patriotic Revolutionary Forces of Ituri(FRPI) had been "neutralised" after a three-week military operation.

The Congolese army, backed by UN peacekeeping troops, launched an offensive against the FRPI in early June -- leaving 35 people dead, 52 wounded, and 36 captured alive, according to Martin Kobler, head of the UN's MONUSCO mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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