Congolese gunmen wound Belgian head of Africa's oldest park
Tue, Apr 15 18:36 PM EDT
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - The director of
Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga Park - Africa's oldest national
park - survived an attack by unidentified gunmen while driving through
the country's volatile eastern borderlands on Tuesday, a colleague
said.
Emmanuel de Merode, one of Africa's leading conservationists, was shot
four times on the road linking the park's headquarters in Rumangabo to
Goma, the capital of North Kivu province.
"He was attacked around 4:30 pm (11.30 a.m. ET) and was evacuated by
the Congolese army," the colleague said on condition he not be named.
"We were informed when he reached Heal Africa hospital (in Goma)."
The bullets missed vital organs and his life is not in danger, doctors
at the Goma hospital where he was admitted told a Reuters witness. A
team was standing by ready to airlift him to the Kenyan capital
Nairobi for further treatment.
De Merode, a Belgian prince, was appointed director of the Virunga
National Park - home to the critically endangered mountain gorilla -
in 2008 and lives at the park headquarters.
He chose to remain there during fighting between the Congolese army
and M23 rebel forces that raged through the park for 20 months until
November.
Virunga National Park was established in 1925 as Africa's first
national park and has been a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site
since 1979.
The densely forested hinterlands around Goma are home to a number of
rebel groups that compete for control of land and Congo's vast natural
resource wealth.
Park rangers are regularly killed in clashes with militias in the park.
The motive behind the attack on de Merode was not immediately clear.
(Reporting by Kenny Katombe; Additional reporting and writing by Peter
Jones; Editing by Joe Bavier and Eric Walsh)
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