UN Security Council: Crisis Talks on Eastern DR Congo

The United Nations

The UN Security Council meets at 10 AM in New York to discuss the rapidly deteriorating situation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, amid escalating fighting and mass displacement. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, head of UN peacekeeping, is expected to brief on recent peace efforts - including the Washington Accords, signed just days - before violence surged again, heightening fears of a worsening humanitarian emergency and regional spillover.

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