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Congo Faces U.N. Deadline of June 8 for Human Rights Probe

by Reuters

   Congo has two days to heed U.N. calls to jointly investigate violence
   in Kasai province, or else it risks having an international human
   rights inquiry imposed upon it, U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad
   al-Hussein said on Tuesday.

   "The already dire situation in the Kasai provinces of the Democratic
   Republic of the Congo continues to deteriorate, spreading to other
   provinces and across the border with Angola," Zeid told the U.N. Human
   Rights Council.

   "Unless I receive appropriate responses from the Government regarding a
   joint investigation by 8 June, I will insist on the creation of an
   international investigative mechanism for the Kasais."