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KINSHASHA, Congo — A Congolese army spokesman says a deputy commander has been arrested for desecrating enemy corpses, one day after the UN voiced concern over reports of the practice.

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, July 18 (Reuters) – H undreds of people protested in Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern city of Goma on Thursday against President Joseph Kabila, accusing him of incompetence in efforts to neutralise rebels who have long plagued the region.

(Reuters) – The United Nations is reviewing support to Democratic Republic of Congo army units accused of desecrating the corpses of rebels and mistreating detainees, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday during renewed fighting in the country's east.

A new brigade of United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo will fight all illegal armed groups in the eastern region, including Rwandan rebels with links to that country’s 1994 genocide, the UN said.

The UN peacekeeping mission in DR Congo (MONUSCO) on Wednesday denied accusations that it shelled Rwandan villages in recent clashes between the Congolese army and M23 rebels.

GOMA, Congo — Congo's government forces continued their slow advance in a fourth day of fighting against M23 rebels near the eastern Congolese city of Goma.

The United Nations refugee agency today voiced concern about a new emergency in the North Kivu area of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where renewed fighting has uprooted tens of thousands of people in recent days.

UNITED NATIONS, United States, July 16, 2013 (AFP) – The Democratic Republic of Congo government has accused Rwandan forces of joining a new rebel advance in the east of the strife-torn country, in a letter made public Tuesday.

U.N. troops are ready to use "lethal force" to stop a rebel advance on the Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma after major new clashes erupted, a spokesman said Monday.

New York, US – UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) were on high alert on Monday and ready to use force to protect civilians in Goma from an advancing rebellion by the March 23 movement (M23), a UN statement said.