Trump envoy Haley in troubled eastern DR Congo
26 Oct 2017 10:48 PM IST
Goma: The US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, headed on Wednesday for a displaced people's camp on a visit to the strife-ravaged east of Democratic Republic of Congo.
Haley arrived in regional capital Goma by plane from the DRC capital Kinshasa before boarding a UN helicopter for Kitchanga, about 80 kilometres forced from their homes by violence, UN sources said.
Haley will stay until tomorrow in the DRC, the last leg of a maiden trip to Africa which has taken her to Ethiopia and South Sudan.
The envoy is the most senior official in the administration of President Donald Trump to visit the continent.
Violence has increased in recent months in South Sudan and the DRC, despite a strong peacekeeping presence.
MONUSCO, the UN stablisation mission deployed in the DRC, is the world's largest such force and includes some 18,000 troops and police.
The United Nations first intervened before the end of the Second Congo War in 2003.
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