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Three months after UN peacekeeping forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) violently cracked down on protesters, in which 36 people were killed and 170 others injured, victims’ families are still searching for justice, Amnesty International said today.

In 1999, the Congolese government brought a legal case against Uganda before the International Court of Justice, arguing that Ugandan soldiers had engaged in looting and other war crimes while occupying eastern Congo.

Uganda has made the first payment towards a $325 million bill it was ordered to pay by a UN court for invading eastern DR Congo during the Second Congo War, the Congolese government said.

The International Court of Justice ordered Uganda to pay a hefty $325 million to the neighboring country. It includes $225 million for loss of life, $40... 12.09.2022, Sputnik International

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We look back on this day in history and remember the people and events that shaped the world we live in today.

A horrifying new research claims that since 1999, UN soldiers from 12 different nations have fathered and then abandoned thousands of children in the impoverished Democratic Republic of the Congo. The study also says that troops and police working under a UN mandate in the war-torn country molested children, raped young women, and exchanged food for'survival sex.' According to the research, one victim was just eleven years old when her aunt sold her to UN forces, who loaded her with al...

The report also claims that soldiers and police operating under a UN mandate in the war torn country have abused children, raped young women and traded food for survival sex.

Rwanda believes DRC continues to provide refuge for those behind the 1994 genocide.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his team will be in sub-Saharan Africa from August 7 to 12, paying visits to three countries: South Africa, the Democratic