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 Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:50 pm Post subject: Thousands flee Congo fighting |
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http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24563537-5005961,00.html
The BBC TV news reported on this today:
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THOUSANDS of civilians fled fresh fighting in the eastern DRCongo today, forming long columns heading towards Goma on foot, an AFP journalist reported.
Around 20,000 men, women and children were streaming out of the Kibumba area around 35km north of the regional capital, where fresh fighting flared overnight between forces loyal to rebel general Laurent Nkunda and government troops.
The rebels attacked the area, continuing an offensive in which they seized a strategic military camp yesterday at Rumangabo, around 50km north of Goma, the capital of Nord-Kivu.
Yesterday, DRC President Laurent Kabila replaced his defence minister in a government of "combat and reconstruction" in a bid to pacify the east of the country, which is about a quarter the size of the United States.
"It's a combat team to which has been assigned the essential missions of security and reconstruction," according to a statement from Mr Kabila on the formation of the third government since his 2006 election.
The UN said last week more than 200,000 people have been displaced since renewed fighting broke out in Nord-Kivu province on August 28, in violation of a ceasefire agreement signed in Goma in January.
An estimated total of between 1.4 million and two million civilians have been displaced by the fighting, more than a quarter of the province's population of five million. |
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/democraticrepublicofcongo/3269612/20000-flee-Congo-fighting-as-UN-peacekeepers-use-helicopter-gunships.html |
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