Elephant slaughtered and eaten in DR Congo
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Goma, Dr Congo (AFP) Oct 9, 2023
An elephant that escaped Virunga National Park in volatile eastern DR Congo was slaughtered and eaten on Monday, the conservation authority and a local resident said. Militias have plagued eastern Democratic Republic of Congo for three decades, a legacy of regional wars that flared in the 1990s and 2000s. The vast expanse of Virunga - famed worldwide as a wildlife sanctuary - lies in