From: Roul Rodolphe
To: Rwanda-l
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 10:22 AM
Subject: [rwandanet] KAGAME Atangiye Umukino we Muli CONGO"INTAMBARA"
Paul Kagame
Last Updated: Monday, 27 November 2006, 13:46 GMT
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UN battles dissidents in DR Congo
A UN helicopter gunship has fired on troops loyal to a dissident general
to halt their advance towards Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Earlier the followers of renegade Gen Laurent Nkunda took control of
parts of Sake, close to the Rwandan border, after attacking army positions.
Thousands of civilians fled their homes in the town. Casualties are
unclear.
The clashes are the most serious in the east since DR Congo's first
elections were held earlier this year.
Tension is already high in the capital, Kinshasa, where the Supreme Court
is due to deliver its verdict on the legal challenge to last month's
presidential run-off election brought by the former rebel leader and current
Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba.
In his appeal, Mr Bemba said the results that gave victory to President
Joseph Kabila did not reflect the reality at the ballot box.
Rebels 'repulsed'
United Nations forces said their helicopters and peacekeepers opened fire
against the dissidents after being attacked in and around the volatile eastern
town of Sake.
"Monuc troops were threatened by effective fire by 81st and 83rd
brigades," said Monuc military spokesman Major Ajay Dalal.
"Attack helicopters fired on 81st and 83rd soldiers [dissidents loyal to
Gen Nkunda] in Sake and a few kilometres east in Kasingazi
"Ground troops have also opened fire on both fronts."
At least eight soldiers are reported to have been killed in the attacks
by the dissidents on Sake and eight rebels killed.
The dissident troops used machine-guns, mortars and rocket-propelled
grenades.
Sake is a small town about 25km (15 miles) west of the provincial capital
of Goma.
Mr Nkunda left the army and launched his own low-level rebellion after DR
Congo's war ended, saying that the country's transition to democracy was flawed
and had excluded the minority Tutsi community.
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