A UN report says the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has stepped up attacks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, reports the Reuters news agency.
Forty LRA rebels kidnapped 61 civilians in the Tanganyika mining area on 7 June, Reuters adds.
The report says they were forced to move goods looted by the LRA and then later released.
Earlier this year, the US pulled out their forces who were supporting the search for the LRA's leader Joseph Kony.
The UN Special Representative for Central Africa, Francois Lounceny Fall, told the UN Security Council this week that he was concerned the US leaving would "create a security vacuum".
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