Crime has increased in eastern DR Congo's two major cities which were recently seized by the Rwanda-backed M23, the UN's humanitarian agency said Monday, although life is beginning to return to normal.
Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the prime minister of the DRC told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday,
We are shocked by the sheer number of deceased individuals retrieved from the streets and Lake Kivu,” the experts said.
The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Friday 21 February that strongly condemned the ongoing offensive by M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),
About 200 wounded and sick soldiers from the Southern African Development Community Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (SAMIDRC) are apparently on their way out of Goma in the eastern DRC after weeks of negotiations with M23 rebels.
The U.N. Human Rights Council has launched a commission that will investigate atrocities committed by both sides.
The U.N. refugee agency voiced concern at the "rapidly deteriorating" situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, saying the war had left around 350,000 displaced people with no roof over their heads.
The United Nations Human Rights Council earlier this month launched a commission that will investigate atrocities.
The armed group, backed by several thousand Rwandan soldiers, has taken the capital of South Kivu province. It continues to advance, despite calls for a ceasefire from the African Union and threats of sanctions.