WEST AFRICA- GOMA - DR Congo - On the border with Rwanda in a shootout died in an ambush Italian Ambassador Luca Attanasio. A carabiniere escort Vittorio Iacovacci also died with him; they were travelling with a UN convoy when they were attacked and killed. The border area with Rwanda is still a very dangerous zone.
Remembering Pietro Savorgnan di Brazzà founder of Brazaville capital of Congo
Pietro was born in the capital of Italy, Rome, in 1852 to Count Ascanio Savorgnan di Brazzà, an exponent of one of the oldest noble families of Friuli and a Venetian patrician with excellent contacts all over the world including Napoleon's France, and his wife Giacinta Simonetti, who belonged to one of ...
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