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UN Aid Worker Karine Buisset Killed in DR Congo’s Rebel-Held Goma City
The drone strike likely targeted M23 militia officials but mistakenly killed a French UNICEF aid worker, amid ongoing conflict in mineral-rich eastern Congo, UNICEF confirmed.
- A French UNICEF aid worker was killed in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on March 11, 2026, President Emmanuel Macron said, 'A French UNICEF humanitarian worker has been killed in Goma. I extend the nation's support and sympathy to her family, loved ones and colleagues'.
- Since 2021 the M23 rebel group has seized territory in the mineral-rich east with Rwanda's backing, while three decades of conflict in the DRC's east persist despite a December peace deal urged by US President Donald Trump.
- An AFP reporter observed a private residence in Goma struck, with shrapnel hitting neighbouring buildings and one house severely gutted, while firefighters, UN employees and M23 officials were present Wednesday morning.
- Humanitarian sources reported several buildings targeted and people killed, though AFP could not determine the exact death toll or strikes' precise origin after overnight air/drone strikes in residential neighbourhoods of Goma.
- The Congolese army regularly launches long-range drone strikes on M23 positions, and Goma's 2025 seizure shows frontlines have shifted into the mineral-rich Congolese east.
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Radio France Internationale
French aid worker killed in DR Congo air strike
"Immanuel Macron announced the death of a French humanitarian working for UNICEF in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Wednesday, 11 March, who was reportedly killed in a drone strike on the city of Goma, in the province of North Kivu. - A French humanitarian from UNICEF killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (International).
One Unicef employee died in the night-time attack on this large eastern city controlled by the AFC/M23 rebellion. Several sources claim that Joseph Kabila was in Goma.
In an air raid on the town of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a French employee of the UN Children's Fund Unicef was killed. This was reported by France's President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday in online service X. At the same time, he urged "attention to international humanitarian law and the staff of relief agencies to save lives". During the air raids on Goma on Wednesday, several more people were killed, as the AFP news age…
French aid worker killed in Democratic Republic of the Congo
President Emmanuel Macron announced the death of the aid worker, who was working for UNICEF, the UN children's agency, in Goma, an eastern DRC city held by the M23 rebel group. Macron called for 'respect for humanitarian law.'
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