Truce to end fighting in DR Congo

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Source: BBC

The army and rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have agreed a ceasefire in the town at the heart of recent fighting, the UN says.

The clashes around the eastern town of Sake had raised fears of a return to conflict in DR Congo, emerging from a five-year war.
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UN emergency relief chief John Holmes has described the humanitarian situation in the region as deplorable.

Mr Holmes said fighting was confined to parts of the single province of North Kivu, but warned the crisis might worsen in a large country like DR Congo - the size of western Europe.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6982193.stm

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Also: an excellent piece in this Sunday's Observer on the war in the DRC, which seems a better summary of what went on than most things I've read. Warning: you need a strong stomach to read the whole thing - it's horrifying. But scroll down to the end, and you get a simple timeline of what happened when:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,,2160714,00.html