Yumbi in the western Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC, resembles a “ghost city” in the aftermath of a days-long massacre last month which left at least 535 victims, discovered by UN investigators in communal burial sites.
That’s according to Florence Marchal, spokesperson for the UN Mission in the country, MONUSCO.
An attack on a village in central Mali earlier this week in which at least 37 civilians died, is to be investigated with the help of United Nations human rights experts, the UN stabilization mission in the country (MINUSMA), announced on Thursday.
South Sudan must bring to justice the military forces responsible for abducting more than 900 men, women and children from the east of the country, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Thursday.
Hundreds of civilians who were taken by opposition forces in South Sudan’s Western Equatoria region during an uptick in fighting are still missing, the UN’s top rights official said on Thursday, in a call for their immediate release.
Perpetrators behind the killing of nine mostly-female civilians displaced by conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR), must be brought to justice, the UN peacekeeping operation in the country said on Friday.
The mission, known by the French acronym MINUSCA, has strongly condemned the incident, which occurred on Thursday in the town of Bria.
Spokesperson for the Mission, Vladimir Monteiro told Cristina Silveiro of UN News, what they know so far.