UN Military Action in DRC 'Inevitable'

South Africa says military intervention by its contingent of United Nations peacekeepers is now “inevitable” after Rwanda-backed rebels in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) did not comply with a January 2 deadline to disarm. In a terse statement released this week, South Africa’s foreign ministry said it had no remaining options against the Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), a Rwanda-backed militia that has sown havoc in the mineral-rich...

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