KINSHASA: Three members of the United Nation’s peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo were kidnapped Thursday in the eastern North Kivu province, a UN source said.

“Three members of MONUSCO [the 20,000-strong UN peacekeeping force]. . .  have been kidnapped in Kibumba”, some 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of the provincial capital Goma, the source told AFP.

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