The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, expressed the EU’s “extreme concern” at the escalation of violence underway in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in a statement published on Monday 4 March.
Armed violence involving the Rwandan-backed rebels of the ‘M23’ movement has intensified since the beginning of February, causing major population movements and a “humanitarian disaster”, according to UN agencies (see EUROPE...