Wednesday, December 03, 2008

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In what is threatening to once again draw the Democratic Republic of Congo’s neighbours openly into the conflict and may undo a six-year regional and international endeavour to alleviate the Great Lakes region, fresh fighting has resumed in the Eastern Congo region between government forces and those of Laurent Nkunda.

As reports last came, rebel forces led by the Congolese Tutsi general – head of the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), have affirmed an armistice after four days of hostility in the North Kivu province. Congolese soldiers and displaced civilians moved into the province's capital Goma, fleeing advancing rebels.

The fighting has led to the migration of at least 50,000 people, according to UN reports. A crisis sitting of the Security Council late last week has agreed to a non-binding declaration, which condemned the hostility and called upon CNDP to "bring its operations to an end", which they said was creating a "humanitarian catastrophe".....Continue


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