Prisoners are surrounded by government soldiers just outside Goma in eastern Congo, November 23, 2008. Government troops hauled 26 men off a United Nations transport convoy near the front line on Sunday, accusing them of being a mixture of rebels and traditional Mai-Mai fighters, both of whom the Congolese army have fought running battles against during the past month. The army produced weapons they said belonged to the captives and accused the U.N. of collaborating with the rebels.REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO)
Thousands Receive Aid In DR Congo As
Ceasefire Holds -- The Telegraph
Ceasefire Holds -- The Telegraph
Thousands of people received aid supplies in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday as a ceasefire agreement brought a measure of calm to an area torn by suffering.
For the first time in weeks, aid workers were able to move freely in North Kivu province, the epicentre of the rebellion led by Laurent Nkunda, a renegade Tutsi general.
So far, a ceasefire is holding and Gen Nkunda has withdrawn his forces from two key locations 90 miles north of Goma, the local capital. This has allowed the creation of buffer zones between the rebels and Congo's national army, patrolled by United Nations peacekeepers, and opened up large areas for aid workers.
A British-based aid agency, Merlin, was able to deliver essential drugs to the town of Kanyabayonga, previously fought over by government and rebels. "It has been 10 days since we were last able to get here and the clinics were running out of drugs," said Louise Orton, from Merlin.
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My Comment: This ceasefire is razor thin ....