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December 31st, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The United Nations has placed its troops in the conflict-ridden Democratic Republic of Congo on alert following several coordinated attacks by armed assailants in the capital Kinshasa and two other cities.
“The UN mission in the country, MONUSCO, has taken measures to ensure the safety and security of its staff and placed troops in these locations on alert,” AFP quoted UN spokesman Martin Niersky as saying on Monday.
Congo’s government spokesman Lambert Mende said the army repulsed the attacks by the assailants on the state television station, the airport and the main military base in Kinshasa.
Mende also said that shooting had broken out in Lubumbashi, the country’s second-largest city located in south-eastern Congo.
“These are terrorists, you can’t call them anything else,” he said.
Clashes also erupted in the eastern town of Kindu.
Mende said more than 70 attackers had been killed, 52 of them in Kinshasa, adding that three government soldiers also died in Monday’s fighting.
A UN staff member was also wounded during the exchange of fire at the Kinshasa airport.
Defense Minister Alexandre Luba Ntambo told journalists the situation was now “totally under control” and an investigation was under way.
Congo has faced numerous problems over the past few decades, such as grinding poverty, crumbling infrastructure, and a war in the east of the country that has dragged on since 1998 and left over 5.5 million people dead.
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