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Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Secondary Navigation Top Stories Full Coverage Most Popular Photos Search Search: DRCongo crisis summit agreed as fears grow for civilians AFP - Saturday, November 1 GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (AFP) - - Support for an international summit on the crisis in eastern DRCongo gathered pace Friday, as UN officials reported rebel attacks on camps for displaced people there. President Joseph Kabila agreed to meet Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame at an emergency summit organised by the European Commission EU development commissioner Louis Michel said Friday. Speaking from the Congolese capital Kinshasa, he said: "I have asked (UN Secretary General) Ban Ki-moon to organise a meeting at the highest level. "President Kabila has signalled his accord and so has President Kagame." Michel said both leaders were clearly sincere about "opting for dialogue and putting an end to the reasons that are undermining the east" of the country -- the scene of protracted fighting between rebels and government forces. The meeting will be held in the Kenyan capital Nairobi under the aegis of the United Nations and the African Union, he said, with the objective to "find a road map with mechanisms of verification". Kagame and Kabila had shunned a similar summit in November last year, also in Nairobi. The news came just hours after the UN refugee agency UNHCR said it had received credible reports that rebels were looting and burning camps for displaced people . "UNHCR has received disturbing reports that several camps for internally displaced people near the Nord-Kivu town of Rutshuru, 90 kilometres north of Goma, have been forcibly emptied, looted and burned," spokesman Ron Redmond told journalists. "We are extremely concerned about the fate of some 50,000 displaced people living in these camps, which include the UNHCR-administered sites of Dumez, Nyongera and Kasasa," he said. Earlier, UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay said Congo's routed government forces had gone on a rampage of lootings, killings and rape over the past few days in Goma. She urged the government to take "swift and significant action" to control their troops and protect civilians. "What happened in Goma should not have happened, as most violations were committed by looting soldiers belonging to the government forces," she said. Pillay also accused rebel forces of rights abuses, such as firing indiscriminately at a clinic where government soldiers had fled. Goma itself, the regional capital of the eastern province of Nord-Kivu, was surrounded by rebel forces Friday. Only 850 United Nations peacekeepers stand between Goma and the rebel troops led by Laurent Nkunda after government soldiers fled the city on Wednesday. But UN forces' commander Colonel Samba Tall has said the ceasefire Nkunda declared was holding and that his MONUC force was respecting its mandate, under which it could engage the rebels if necessary to protect civilians. Tens of thousands of civilians have already sought refuge there, fleeing an earlier offensive by rebels of the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) who routed government forces in Nord-Kivu province. Aid agencies estimate at least 45,000 displaced people are massed in a camp at Kibati on the outskirts of the city. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, his British counterpart David Miliband and Washington's top diplomat for Africa, Jendayi Frazer were all due to stop over in both Goma and Kinshasa Friday. They will also visit Kigali for talks with officials in neighbouring Rwanda, which Kinshasa accuses of supporting the rebels. Miliband's presence in Rwanda will be important to Kouchner given that Paris and Kigali broke off diplomatic relations in November 2006 in a row over alleged French involvement in the 1994 genocide there. Before leaving France, Kouchner told French radio Europe 1: "This is a massacre such as Africa has probably never seen, which is taking place virtually before our eyes." He added: "It is out of the question that we let this happen." UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the rebels to "disengage" from the conflict and maintain a ceasefire as they close in on Goma. The UN chief described the situation as "very frightening" and urged African leaders to take "concrete measures" to defuse the crisis. But Ban said there were "limits" on the role of the UN troops. With displaced people in seemingly perpetual motion to escape the fighting and find food and shelter, aid agencies have had difficulty in providing an accurate figure for the numbers on the move, with thousands of people having fled across the borders to Rwanda and Uganda. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article Average (0 votes) Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Most Popular – Top Stories Viewed Japan joins wave of rate cuts as recession fears grow McCain, Obama step up battleground blitz Australian F1 race posts record financial loss BBC chief quits, star presenter suspended over offensive prank When men see red, they see hot: study View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology

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