A Congolese humanitarian worker, kidnapped at the weekend in the troubled east of Democratic Republic of Congo by an armed group that killed two of his colleagues, has been freed, his NGO said on Tuesday.
Six soldiers died in fighting to repel an incursion by Rwandan troops in eastern Democratic of Republic of Congo this week, the army announced on Friday.
About 200 000 people have been displaced in ethnic clashes since mid-December in the northeastern Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a humanitarian source told AFP on Tuesday.
The new head of the UN's peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo took office on Sunday amid heightened tensions between the world body and the government.
Unidentified assailants stabbed 12 patients in their hospital beds in the restive Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma, with fears it was the work of Ugandan Islamist rebels, officials said on Tuesday.
At least 30 people have been killed in two days of ethnic clashes between Hema herders and Lendu farmers in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s northeastern Ituri province, local authorities said on Monday.
The UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo said on Wednesday there had been a surge in summary "executions" in the country, driven by a crisis in the vast region of Kasai.
The United Nations human rights office says Congolese security forces targeted UN monitors, preventing them from doing their jobs, while using excessive force against demonstrators who were protesting against the government.
Congolese security forces shot dead at least six people and wounded dozens more as they fired tear gas to disperse a protest against President Joseph Kabila organised by the Catholic Church on Sunday, a U.N. peacekeeping mission in the country said.
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