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Journalist Melanie Gouby, left, and filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel pose before their interview about the film &quot;Virunga,&quot; Thursday April 17, 2014 in New York. The film about Virunga National Park in eastern Congo debuts at the Tribeca Film festival on Thursday. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Days after shooting, ‘Virunga’ debuts at Tribeca

By JAKE COYLE - Associated Press

FILE- In this file photo taken on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2012, Emmanuel de Merode, Virunga National Park director and chief warden, poses at the park headquarters in Rumangabo, some 60 kms (40 miles) north of Goma, eastern Congo. Park officials say the Belgian director of Africa's oldest national park, a reserve in conflict-ridden eastern Congo, has been shot and seriously wounded. Three gunmen ambushed de Merode on Tuesday, April 15 according spokeswoman Joanna Natasegara. A statement on the park's website said he was traveling between Goma, a main city in the east near Rwanda's border, and Rumangabo at the time Natasegara said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay,File)

Protector of vast African park shot and wounded

By SARAH DiLORENZO - Associated Press