Fragile ceasefire in east Congo as talks continue

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Reuters
05 jan. 07 - 18.28h

KINSHASA, Jan 5 (Reuters) - A fragile ceasefire appears to be holding in Congo's troubled North Kivu province as the government meets with renegade general Laurent Nkunda in neighbouring Rwanda, United Nations officials said on Friday.

Rwanda has been mediating talks between Congo's government and Nkunda, a former army general who launched attacks against government positions near North Kivu's capital Goma in November, sparking more than a month of on-off fighting.

The mediation is aimed at ending the latest round of fighting in Congo's east without a military showdown.

"There is a ceasefire, an informal ceasefire. They haven't been shooting for the last few days," said Lieutenant Colonel Didier Rancher, spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Democratic Republic of Congo ...

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