2017 Semuliki attack 2017
Recorded location from Wikidata; battle sites are often approximate.
Key facts
| Date | 7 December 2017 | Wikidata |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 2017 | Wikidata P585 (point in time) |
| Era | Post-1945 (1946 onwards) | derived from year |
| Location | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Natural Earth (modern borders) |
| Continent | Africa | Natural Earth |
| War / conflict | Kivu conflict | Wikidata P361 |
| Coordinates | 0.7390, 29.7928 | Wikidata P625 |
About the battle
The 2017 Semuliki attack was an attack carried out by elements of the Allied Democratic Forces on a United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) operating base in the Beni Territory, North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on December 7, 2017. The attack was highly coordinated and resulted in the deaths of fifteen U.N. peacekeeping personnel and wounds to 53 others making it the deadliest incident for the U.N. since the deaths of twenty-four Pakistani peacekeepers in an ambush in Somalia in 1993. The attack was among many of the latest flare-ups in violence in the North Kivu region which borders Uganda and Rwanda and one of the ADF's deadliest attacks in recent history. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres labeled the attack, "the worst attack on UN peacekeepers in the organization's recent history."
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