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Fighting re-ignites in eastern Congo
by Eddy Isango
The Associated Press Translate This Article
6 December 2006
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Troops loyal to a renegade Congo general attacked army forces Tuesday in eastern Congo, re-igniting fighting after a week of relative calm in the restive region, officials said.
Forces claiming allegiance to Laurent Nkunda—a one-time Congolese general turned warlord—attacked army positions in the town of Bunagana, near the Uganda border, said Col. Delphin Kahindi, regional commander for Congo's army.
Patrick Lavand'homme, regional head of the U.N.'s office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs, confirmed the clashes and said people had been seen fleeing across the border into Uganda. He did not have an estimate on the number of people displaced.
The fighting is some 1,000 miles from the capital, Kinshasa, seat of a government struggling to assert authority over a vast country emerging from back-to-back wars and decades of dictatorship.
On Wednesday, dignitaries from around the world will gather in Kinshasa to watch interim President Joseph Kabila be sworn in as the first democratically elected president in more than 40 years.
Kabila, the son of slain Congo leader Laurent Kabila, won the election after leading a transitional government composed of former warring factions. Although a peace deal ended the broader war, the government has struggled to gain control of the east, which has been periodically wracked by violence from Congolese militiamen as well as Rwandan rebels who fled the 1994 genocide.
Last month, United Nations and government troops battled fighters loyal to Nkunda for days in the hills around Sake, a small town on the northern tip of Lake Kivu. That fighting died down last week, only to break out again Tuesday.
Kabila had visited Sake on Friday and asked Nkunda's fighters to join the country's new integrated army—a force that includes sometimes restive former rebels and has been accused of human rights violations
Nkunda quit Congo's army and launched a low-level rebellion after the war ended, alleging the transition to democracy was flawed and excluded the minority Tutsi community. The renegade general controls thousands of fighters and claims the loyalty of two army brigades.
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