Region 5: Sub-Saharan Africa Blog

   Human rights monitors say Allied Democratic Forces have been involved in killing more than a thousand civilians. A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has begun the trial of 215 members of an armed group accused of killing hundreds of civilians in and around Beni town in the country’s northeast. Eighty accused members of the Allied Democratic… Read more »

(All Africa)   Northern Bahr El Ghazal / Abu Jabra — Fighting between members of the South Sudanese army and opponents of the government resulted in a number of dead and wounded on the Sudan-South Sudan border between East Darfur and Northern Bahr El Ghazal. The clash comes less than a week after the leader of the South Sudanese opposition forces, Riek… Read more »