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Responding to the escalation of violence in the region, Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty International's Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, said: "Thousands of Congolese civilians are once again ...

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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Prominent human rights group Amnesty International accused Congo's army and a rebel group of bombing densely populated areas in attacks that “likely constitute war ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Amnesty International has accused Congo’s army and a rebel group of bombing densely populated areas in attacks that “likely constitute war crimes.” Both the ...

Democratic Republic of the Congo DRC flag KINSHASA - Both sides in the ... war by firing explosives into civilian-packed areas, Amnesty International said Monday. More than 100 civilians were ...

It is "part of a growing and worrying trend of transnational repression with governments violating human rights beyond their borders," Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty ... was taken to Kinshasa, the ...

in Nairobi and take him back to Kinshasa where he faces a military trial condemned by rights groups. Amnesty International warned it was part of a "growing and worrying trend of transnational ...

Vowing to retake its lost territory, the DRC's army has retaliated in counter-offensives with the support of pro-Kinshasa ... war crimes," it added. Amnesty said the International Criminal Court ...

The M23 rebel group that is backed by Rwanda has emerged as a more potent force after being crushed during their first ...