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| 2018 Beni ambush | |||||||
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| Part of Allied Democratic Forces insurgency | |||||||
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 MONUSCO  Democratic Republic of the Congo |
 Allied Democratic Forces | ||||||
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8 MONUSCO peacekeepers killed, 10 wounded 1 peacekeeper missing 12 Congolese soldiers killed |
Unknown, several reported killed or wounded[1] About a dozen captured[2] | ||||||
The 2018 Beni ambush was an armed assault carried out by militants from the Allied Democratic Forces insurgent group on a joint UN-FARDC anti-insurgent contingent patrolling the area of Kididiwe, near the Congolese city of Beni. The ambush left eight UN peacekeepers and 12 Congolese soldiers dead and 10 UN peacekeepers wounded.[3] It was the deadliest attack on UN forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since the 2017 Semuliki attack 11 months earlier.[4]
Ambush
On November 14, 2018, a joint UN-Congolese anti-insurgent operation in Kididiwe, 12 miles outside of the city of Beni, came under assault from a large number of Allied Democratic Forces militants as they tried to secure an area
- ^ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/11/peacekeepers-killed-fight-drc-rebels-181115191128456.html
- ^ https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/15/un-says-7-peacekeepers-killed-in-fight-against-con/
- ^ http://www.africanews.com/2018/11/16/adf-rebels-in-drc-kill-seven-un-peacekeepers//
- ^ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/11/peacekeepers-killed-fight-drc-rebels-181115191128456.html