The decades-long civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo is leaving in its wake a police state that sees impoverished youth as a threat and seeks to exterminate them.
A series of massacres in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is widely blamed on an Islamist insurgent group, the Alliance of Democratic Forces-NALU.
The International Criminal Court upheld the conviction and 14-year prison sentence of former Democratic Republic of Congo militia leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo.
The International Criminal Court found Congolese militia leader Germain Katanga guilty of four counts of war crimes and one count of crime against humanity.
Ugandan Islamist group ADF-NALU is blamed for a massacre in eastern DR Congo, just as the UN intervention force announced a new drive against remnant guerillas.
Following defeat of the M23 rebels in the war-torn east, the DRC is touting an imminent mineral boom in southern Katanga—despite a spreading separatist insurgency.
Mauritania's opposition parties will boycott upcoming elections, seen as legitimizing a dictatorship, while a "Global Slavery Index" names the country as the world's worst offender.
New York area Congolese protested a panel on Syria that Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel shared with Rwandan President Paul Kagame—who they accuse of massive war crimes.
The DRC charges that Rwanda's government used its M23 proxy rebel force to shell its own territory—as a provocation to justify a direct military intervention in eastern Congo.
Human Rights Watch reports that the M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo is still receiving assistance from Rwanda despite continued human rights abuses.
Chinese-owned mining companies in the Democratic Republic of Congo are contributing to a culture of human rights abuses, Amnesty International reports.
The UN Security Council unanimously approved the first-ever “offensive” UN peacekeeping brigade to battle rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
