Murders touch off riots in DRC's gold-rich northeast

Protesters who have been angered by a string of unsolved murders erected roadblocks and mobbed government offices in three days of riots in gold-rich Ituri region of D. R. Congo. 

The trouble erupted in the town of Mahagi in the region bordering Uganda where thousands died in ethnic unrest between Lendu farming people and Hema pastoralists.
 
Protesters claim the police have failed both to investigate the deaths by shooting and to make any arrests. 

SOURCE: NEWS24