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UN searches for two officials in Congo

The Congolese government said a US citizen and a Swiss national had "fallen into the hands of negative forces not yet identified".

Two United Nations officials are missing in the Democratic Republic of Congo and UN peacekeepers are searching for them, a United Nations spokesman says, without giving further details.

The Congolese government said Michael Sharp, a US citizen, and Zaida Catalan, of Swedish nationality, had "fallen into the hands of negative forces not yet identified", along with four Congolese near the village of Ngombe.

Sharp and Catalan are members of a group of experts appointed by the UN Secretary-General to monitor violations of Democratic Republic of Congo sanctions imposed by the Security Council.

The United Nations lists Sharp as American and Catalan as Chilean.


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Source: AAP



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