KISORO, Uganda (Reuters) - It was the six rebel soldiers who hacked down the door of Elias Ngahaga's house one night two weeks ago in Kesaha, eastern Congo, who led him and his family to flee to Uganda from his village, where government troops and rebels are fighting. "We were frightened. They had guns and pangas (machetes)," said Ngahaga, 20, sheltering from the rain in an abandoned building on the edge of a temporary refugee camp in western Uganda. "They took clothes, potatoes, sheets, goats and money. ...

DAKAR (Reuters) - A renegade Congolese general wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes has begun to recruit child soldiers again to fight the government, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) investigation released on Wednesday. General Bosco Ntaganda defected from Congo's army in April after President Joseph Kabila announced plans to arrest him, and fighters loyal to him have since recruited at least 48 children from villages in North Kivu, according to the report. ...

A notorious ex-warlord who became a general in the Congolese army despite international war crimes charges is now being blamed for fomenting more unrest in Congo's east and faces new charges of crimes against humanity.