US urges UN Chief to look into who killed investigators in Congo

UNITED NATIONS – The United States urged the United Nations on Monday to investigate who murdered two UN sanctions monitors in the Democratic Republic of Congo amid mounting criticism of the Congolese authorities’ own inquiry. American Michael Sharp and Swede Zaida Catalan disappeared in March in central Congo’s Kasai region, where hundreds have died since last July in an insurrection against the government. Their bodies were found two weeks later in a shallow grave. They were part of an independent panel of experts investigating sanctions violations, who report to the…

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