1) The first news article that I found of a recent issue in the Congo was a New York Times article published on October 3rd, 2010 about Congolese women being raped literally up the road from a local UN headquarters and they not being able to stop it. The group gang raped at least 200 women going from home to home in the area. One woman says that if the rape victims had been “the daughters or wives or mothers of the power elites,” she said, “I can promise you this war would have ended about 12 years ago.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/world/africa/04congo.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Democratic%20Republic%20of%20Congo&st=cse
2) The second news article that I found of current news in the Congo was a BBC news article published on October 1st, 2010 stating that the UN is now reporting that the killings of Hutus in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1990s may be characterized as "crimes of genocide." I wonder why the UN is just now beginning to confirm that the killings of Hutus was a genocide. "Rwanda's government has always said its troops entered DR Congo to pursue the militiamen responsible for the 1994 genocide of Tutsis." Is Rwanda's government going to be charged with genocide now? Why is the UN just now making this realization and bringing attention to this when it should have been done years earlier?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11450093
