Namibians reportedly injured during disengagement

Four Namibian soldiers, including three who sustained bullet wounds, were recently flown back to their country from the DRC for treatment, ‘The Namibian’ newspaper reported on Wednesday. It said the three soldiers were shot in a skirmish with rebels as a troop pullback in DRC was taking place. “There were four Namibia Defence Force members who came back home. Three had bullet wounds and one was just a case of ordinary sickness,” it quoted the Defence Ministry’s chief liaison officer, Vincent Mwange, as saying. “These guys sustained their bullet wounds during the disengagement process. When they were withdrawing the rebels fired on them,” Mwange said. There have been sporadic skirmishes in Katanga and Equateur Provinces during the disengagement process, according to military sources.