Members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs expressed their concern, on 1 March, about the “deteriorating humanitarian, political and security situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo”, during an exchange following the “terrible armed attack on a WFP convoy” which killed Italian Ambassador Luca Attanasio and injured several people near Goma (see EUROPE B12663A4).
“I strongly encourage the Congolese authorities to promptly investigate the circumstances....