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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Congo warned Wednesday that the M23...

A Congolese woman was kidnapped by militants in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), repeatedly raped and forced to cook and eat human flesh, a Congolese rights group told the UN Security Council (UNSC).

The top U.N. official for the Democratic Republic of the Congo said Wednesday that the resurgent M23 rebel group in the country’s east is well-armed and equipped, posing a growing threat to civilians. “During the most recent hostilities, the M23 has conducted itself increasingly as a conventional army, rather than an armed group,” said Bintou…

Cyclic violence has raged in the eastern DRC for almost 30 years. Crisis Group experts Onesphore Sematumba and Nicolas Delaunay visited Beni, in North Kivu, shortly after Uganda launched a military operation against the Allied Democratic Forces, an Islamist insurgency based in the region.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Congo warned Wednesday that the M23...

The deterioration of security and resurgence of M23 in eastern DRC are an outcome of longstanding rivalries between Rwanda and Uganda.

Bintou Keita, who also heads the UN’s Stabilization Mission in DRC (MONUSCO), said peacekeepers under her command were “determined to protect civilians and help tackle drivers of conflict and violence”.

The deployment proposal has been received with mistrust and even rejection by a large section of politicians, civil society and the public.

More than 10 Christians were killed Tuesday when an Islamist extremist group ambushed their three vehicles in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

They pointed to the chequered history that some of DRC's neighbours have in the war-torn east of the country.