DR CONGO CRISIS: Updates as a senior UN official declares "we are trapped" at an emergency Security Council meeting

As peacekeepers and civilians were killed and senior UN officials sharply called for action, the escalating violence and fatalities in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo prompted an emergency Security Council meeting on Sunday morning. Here are reports from colleagues on the ground and our coverage of the meeting for app users.

Here are a few of today's highlights:


Bintou Keita, the director of the UN peacekeeping force, MONUSCO, says "we are trapped" during the Security Council emergency meeting on DR Congo and demands that the problem be resolved immediately.
The ambassadors of South Africa and Uruguay, whose peacekeepers were recently murdered by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, urged the Security Council to defend UN forces.
The UN humanitarian coordinator in the Democratic Republic of the Congo expresses new worries about the rising violence.
"The world is watching; it's time to act," the foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo tells the Security Council.