UN Drone Allegedly Carrying Gold and Guns Found in DR Congo
Channel: MISSIONS FIELD TV
Date: 2023-11-09

Video footage coming out of the Democratic Republic of Congo has sent social media users into a frenzy and ignited a serious conversation among African observers about the real motivations of the United Nations in countries it purports to be protecting. In the brief video, locals and soldiers can be seen attempting to move a downed UN drone to an unspecified location. Some local sources claim that the drone was carrying gold, guns, and parachutes when it crashed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Saturday, November 4, 2023. The crash site is located in the eastern province of North Kivu which is home to several armed groups. It is not yet clear who is responsible for the drone's crash.
Locals can be heard speaking Swahili and Lingala in the video, claiming that this is what the United Nations is really doing in Congo: looting the country of its natural resources and contributing to destabilisation instead of peacekeeping and protection. The United Nations is in the D.R.C on a peacekeeping mission known as MONUSCO. The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or MONUSCO, has been operational in the DRC since 1999, with the primary objective of stabilizing the country following a protracted period of civil war and conflict. MONUSCO's multifaceted mission includes tasks such as protecting civilians, supporting peace processes, and providing humanitarian assistance. The United Nations Security Council granted UN peacekeeping missions worldwide the permission to deploy unarmed aerial vehicles, popularly known as drones, in 2013. According to the UN, it needs these drones to better perform its mandates, so peacekeeping missions like the MONUSCO have been using them for about a decade now. The drone in the video is believed to have been operated by MONUSCO.