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Rebel troops destroy Catholic seminary in Democratic Republic of Congo
February 20, 2017
Armed men assaulted a Catholic seminary in Kananga, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on February 18, thoroughly ransacking the building before they were driven off by government forces.
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Bishop Félicien Mwanama Galumbulula decried the “exceptional violence and unimaginable atrocities against the population” committed by troops loyal to the late Kamwina Nsapu.
In a separate incident the next day, a Catholic church in Kinshasa was also looted, by a group of young people who arrived with backpacks to carry away what they seized.
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