CHILDREN as young as four are being raped by rebels in the Congo, according to a shocking survey by Oxfam Ireland.

The investigative arm of the United Nations mission in Congo has opened an investigation into allegations that a unit of Indian peacekeepers stationed there were trafficking gold.

The investigative arm of the UN mission in Congo has opened an investigation into allegations that a unit of Indian peacekeepers stationed there were trafficking gold, a spokesman said.

Rwandan combatants attacked a village in eastern Congo today, killing 17 people, wounding 28 others and taking as many as a dozen people hostage, a local rights worker said, citing survivors’ accounts.