Congo villagers killed fighting off Uganda rebels
Congolese vigilantes ambushed marauding Ugandan rebels who launched a wave of attacks on villages at the weekend, but the rebels fought back and killed at least six of them, U.N.-backed radio reported on Tuesday. Fighters from northern Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) carried out a series of raids near Congo’s porous northern border with Sudan on Sunday, looting homes and burning buildings in a pattern similar to months of violence. (Full Story)