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.
About 7 400 people have been forced to flee their homes as fighting raged between rival militias in northwest Central African Republic, the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday.
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 refugee agency on Thursday criticised Nigeria for breaching international agreements after the leader of a Cameroonian anglophone separatist movement and his supporters were extradited at Yaounde's request.
China and the African Union dismissed on Monday a report in French newspaper Le Monde that Beijing had bugged the regional bloc’s headquarters in the Ethiopian capital.
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.
