No UN protection for Congo’s threatened Nobel-winning doctor
Author: admintech | Filed under: WorldDeath threats against a Nobel Peace Prize-winning Congolese doctor have alarmed his supporters who are urging the United Nations to reinstate protection by its peacekeepers, but it likely won’t return. A U.N. official told The Associated Press that the peacekeepers, who were withdrawn from Dr. Denis Mukwege’s hospital earlier this year amid the coronavirus pandemic, have trained Congolese security forces for such work instead. Congo’s government “has been very vocal about being committed to Dr. Mukwege’s and his hospital’s security and we will not be able to provide international protection indefinitely, especially with all the other challenges” and the U.N. mission’s expected reduction in Congo, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss it.