The UN investigators said on Monday they had found more mass graves in the central Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where tribal militias are battling security forces.
Congolese police deployed heavily across the capital Kinshasa on Monday as opposition calls for a general strike after a breakdown in talks with President Joseph Kabila's allies last week raised fears of renewed violence.
The Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda has said that violent incidents in the Democratic Republic of Congo could constitute war crimes.
Democratic Republic of Congo's government said on Wednesday it will investigate the deaths of an American and a Swedish expert for the United Nations and their interpreter, whose bodies were found in a shallow grave Monday after the team disappeared more than two weeks ago.
Police officers in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday fired shots and tear gas to disperse protesters who were demonstrating after Catholic bishops withdrew from mediating in peace talks.
There are indications some UN investigators who went missing in the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this month may have been killed. It follows the discovery of bodies linked to them by some villagers.
Militia fighters in central Democratic Republic of Congo decapitated about 40 police officers in an ambush, local officials said on Saturday, the deadliest attack on security forces since an insurrection in the region began last August.
Barely a week after the Democratic Republic Congo’s Catholic church returned to the negotiating table with the government and the opposition to unlock the ongoing political stalemate, a top official of DRC’s main opposition party has exited the talks.
