Someone asked me in the last week THE question, "How is Congo?" I thought for a minute while I mentally searched for the last time I heard something bad happening in Congo. Not much was happening. The northwest area of Congo had seen unrest but the eastern Congo was quiet.
Just when I thought it was getting better!
Red Cross: Eight aid workers abducted in DRC - CNN.com.
An armed group in strife-torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has kidnapped eight international Red Cross staffers -- seven Congolese and a Swiss delegate -- the aid group said Tuesday.
The eight International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) personnel, who had just completed an assessment of displaced people in the Fizi area, have been held since April 9 by Mai Mai Yakutumba, a militia operating in South Kivu province.
Violent ethnic clashes in the South Kivu, related to the 1994 genocide in neighboring Rwanda, have forced thousands of civilians from their homes in recent months, the ICRC said.
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