Virunga, DR Congo

Rangers killed: Five wildlife rangers and their driver were killed in an ambush in Congo’s famed Virunga National Park on Monday, the single most deadly attack in its history. The park is famed for its rare mountain gorillas and other endangered species; more than 170 rangers have died there protecting animals from poachers and traffickers over the past 20 years. This latest attack was blamed on one of the local “Mai Mai” militia groups. These were originally founded in the 1990s to fight cross-border attacks from Rwanda, but some are now involved in the complex web of inter-ethnic conflicts, anti-government violence and separatist insurgencies that have led to the current humanitarian crisis in the country.