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      Three killed in attack on UN World Food Programme convoy in DR Congo

      The Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a World Food Programme (WFP) staff member, together with an Italian embassy official, were killed on Monday during an attack on a UN convoy in the east of the country, the agency has said.  A number of other passengers travelling in the joint field mission were injured.   The group was travelling from Goma, the capital of the North Kivu province, to visit a WFP-run school…

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