FILE PHOTO: Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Robert Wood speaks during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the crisis in Ukraine at U.N. headquarters in New York, January 22, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday sanctioned six people from five armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as violent clashes escalate in the region between the Congolese army and Rwandan-backed M23 Tutsi-led rebels.
The fighting, in a war that has lasted decades, has increased the risk of an all-out conflict between Congo and Rwanda that could suck in neighbors and regional forces including South Africa, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi.
