U.N. issues warning over conflict area
From Times Wire Reports
The top U.N. envoy to Congo warned that renewed fighting in the east has heightened ethnic tensions and could lead to the renewal of a wider conflict in Central Africa.
Alan Doss urged all militias in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s hilly eastern border area, the scene of the worst fighting and a humanitarian crisis, to support a United Nations disengagement plan to bring peace to the region.
The U.N. estimates that there are about 20,000 militia fighters with various groups in the east.
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