U.N. Monitors Reach Rebel-Held Area
From Times Wire Reports
A team of United Nations liaison officers arrived in Congo to serve as a vanguard for a peacekeeping mission, even as a fragile cease-fire continued to crumble amid reports of fresh fighting. Eight unarmed U.N. monitors set up a mission in Goma, the eastern rebel stronghold. They will not be able to verify or investigate any of the fighting in northwestern Congo, where rebels opposed to President Laurent Kabila have surrounded at least 700 Zimbabwean troops allied with the government.
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