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UN chief talks with Congo, Rwanda leaders as conflict hots up
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 12 - 07 - 2012


United Nations Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon has placed phone calls to the presidents of both Rwanda and
Congo, as a mutiny in the eastern DR Congo intensifies, amid
accusations that Kigali is backing the rebels, according to dpa.
The mutineers, known as the M23 and comprising largely of former
rebels who were integrated into the Congolese army in 2009 but
defected in April, are allegedly linked to Bosco Ntaganda, a renegade
general wanted by the International Criminal Court.
"Stressing the need do everything possible to dissuade the M23
from making further advances and to cease fighting immediately, the
Secretary-General urged Presidents (Paul) Kagame and (Joseph) Kabila
to pursue dialogue in order to defuse tensions and bring an end to
the crisis," Ban's spokesman said in a press release late on
Wednesday.
A UN report released last month accuses Rwanda - which has
historic ties to Ntaganda and other ethnic Tutsi rebel movements in
the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo - of arming and aiding M23.
Ban expressed "grave concern" over the report, according to his
spokesman.
The rebel group has managed to defeat the Congolese army in
several recent battles and seized towns along the border with Uganda.
The UN peacekeeping mission in the massive Central African country
has boosted its presence around Goma, the main city in the region,
fearing an attack.
M23 this week set up a political wing, as the group pushes for
negotiations with Kinshasa, which the rebels accuse of not respecting
the 2009 peace deal.
The fighting between the rebels and the Congolese army has
displaced tens of thousands of people in recent months.
Ministers and technical experts at the African Union, currently
holding a summit in Ethiopia, spent many hours on Wednesday
deliberating the crisis in the Congo, in an effort to diffuse
tensions in the volatile region.
Uganda has warned that the crisis could spill over and destabilize
East Africa. Congo's last civil war, which ended in 2003, drew in
eight nations on the continent and left more than 5 million people
dead, mostly from disease and hunger.


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