CONGO FIGHTING INTENSIFIES
Goma, in eastern Congo is tonight, a dangerous no-man’s land. This strategic frontier town, close to Rwanda has seen trouble across the day with rioting and reports of rape and looting. The Congolese army has fled.
The Tutsi rebels outside town stand ready to move in but have not done so as I write and have declared a ceasefire. It is the culmination of several years of increasing violence in the area and the stimulus, as ever, Hutu-Tutsi ethnic tensions. Hundreds of thousands of people already displaced, many of them from refugee camps in the first place.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Congo fighting intensifies (Channel 4 News)
Today's Snowmail by Alex T, Channel 4 News, UK 18:17:03 GMT - excerpt:
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