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My Profile Postcards to the President Messages from citizens around the world Watch Now You are here: Home > News > International > Article Home Business & Finance News U.S. Politics International Technology Entertainment Sports Lifestyle Oddly Enough Environment Health Science Special Coverage Video Pictures You Witness The Great Debate Blogs Reader Feedback Do More With Reuters RSS Widgets Mobile Podcasts Newsletters You Witness News Make Reuters My Homepage Partner Services CareerBuilder Affiliate Network Professional Products Support (Customer Zone) Reuters Media Financial Products About Thomson Reuters U.N. and African leaders meet on Congo crisis Fri Nov 7, 2008 7:05am EST Email | Print | Share | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+] By David Clarke NAIROBI (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon met African leaders at a summit in Kenya on Friday to try and end the conflict in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo before it engulfs the whole region. Fighting between rebel leader Laurent Nkunda and Congolese forces has spread along the hilly, mineral-producing border region with Rwanda, uprooting hundreds of thousands of people and creating international alarm. One of the key issues leaders meeting in Kenya need to resolve for a lasting solution to the festering conflict is the presence in eastern Congo of Rwandan Hutu rebels who took part in the 1994 genocide. Over the past four years there have been various ceasefires and agreements to disarm all militant groups in the region, but little progress has been made on the ground and there have been frequent campaigns by Nkunda. He justifies his revolt as a legitimate one to protect ethnic Tutsis in Congo from the Hutu rebels, known as the FDLR, and says he wants talks with Congo's President Joseph Kabila. The region is also rich in minerals, such as coltan, which is used in mobile phones, making control of the remote terrain, far from Congo's capital Kinshasa, lucrative. CONGO CHIDES RWANDAN "MEDDLING" Ban was holding bilateral meetings with the African leaders on Friday and said before the summit he would encourage Kabila and Rwanda's President Paul Kagame "to find a path to peace." "We just want Rwanda to stop meddling in the affairs of DRC, and show us the proof," Kabila's spokesman Kudura Kasongo told reporters at the summit, saying that talks between Kabila and Nkunda were "not on the agenda." Rwanda denies supporting Nkunda and accuses Congo of backing the Hutu rebels in the east. While the leaders wrestle with their entrenched political differences, calls for more peacekeepers in the region are growing around the world to prevent a humanitarian disaster. Aid agencies are scrambling to provide food and medical care to 200,000 refugees crammed into camps around and just north of Goma, near the border with Rwanda. But relief workers say that many more out of over 1 million displaced civilians in North Kivu are out of reach of help, either cut off by fighting, hiding in the bush or isolated in zones controlled by rebel and militia forces. Ban has asked the Security Council to approve a "surge" of 3,000 extra troops for the U.N. Congo mission, MONUC, which at 17,000 strong is already the largest in the world. But the one thing that desperate refugees and aid agencies in North Kivu province are clamoring for -- more security and protection from attacks by marauding rebels and soldiers -- is the one which the world seems less inclined to provide quickly. Continued... 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