Rwanda faces trial over conflict in neighboring state

A regional court will begin hearings on a case filed by DR Congo next month, an official has said

The East African Court of Justice (EACJ) has decided to open hearings in a case filed by Kinshasa against Rwanda over its alleged role in a decades-long armed conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo), a Congolese official has said.

Samuel Mbemba, DR Congo’s deputy justice minister in charge of international litigation...