JUST a few weeks ago, Joseph fled a militia group after living and fighting in the bush with them for a year.

Armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo have attacked a school to recruit child soldiers, Save the Children said today.

Helen O’Neill, of Médecins Sans Frontières, describes the deteriorating situation in Congo and stresses the need for the violence to stop, so the growing humanitarian crisis can be managed.

Three mass graves have been discovered in an eastern area of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the DRC formerly controlled by a rebel warlord that has been the scene of recent clashes, the United Nations said today.