Rebels in eastern Congo abducted 130 hospital patients, UN says

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have abducted at least 130 sick and wounded people from two hospitals in a major city in eastern DRC, the United Nations said Monday.

On February 28, M23 fighters attacked the CBCA Ndosho hospital and the Heal Africa hospital in Goma, a strategic city they seized earlier this year, Ravina Shamdasani, a spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office, said in a statement.

The rebels took away 116 patients from CBCA…