Central Africa

KINSHASA, Congo - Congolese police say a grenade has killed five children in a small village in volatile eastern Congo.

GENEVA - On Nov. 14, 1996, armed men surrounded the Mugunga refugee camp in eastern Zaire and began shooting indiscriminately at its inhabitants as they huddled for safety or tried to flee.

KINSHASA, Congo - Congo's president has ordered a mining suspension in volatile eastern Congo.

JOHANNESBURG - Amnesty International says Equatorial Guinea has executed four alleged coup plotters in a matter of hours in what it calls a "pretense of justice." The main opposition party in the oil-rich but impoverished Central African nation described it as "political assassination." Amnesty International says the former military and government officials were abducted from neighboring Benin and held at a prison notorious for torture until they "confessed" to a February 2009 attack.

KINSHASA, Congo - Dozens of rebels attacked a U.N.