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Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Search Search: UN envoy in Congo peace bid AFP - Sunday, November 16 GOMA, DR Congo (AFP) - - UN special envoy Olusegun Obasanjo arrived in the besieged Congolese town of Goma on Saturday ahead of a meeting with rebel chief Laurent Nkunda aimed at ending months of fighting. Government forces and Nkunda's troops have clashed repeatedly since August in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo in violation of a January ceasefire. An estimated 250,000 people have been displaced. Nkunda, a cashiered general who says he is defending local minorities against the army and Rwandan-backed rebels, has threatened to topple President Joseph Kabila's government unless he is granted face-to-face negotiations. Kabila has so far ruled out any meeting. There were reports of fresh fighting Saturday at Kabasha, near the strategic town of Kanyabayonga and to the north of Goma, the capital of mineral-rich Nord-Kivu province which has been encircled by Nkunda's forces for two weeks. General Vainqueur Mayala of the government's forces told AFP there had been an hour-long battle but UN spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jean-Paul Dietrich said the incident lasted only 10 minutes. MOUNC, the UN mission in Congo, has beefed up its presence in Kanyabayonga and Dietrich said the Congolese army also had some 800 soldiers there. "The situation in Kanyabayonga is getting back to normal, we are fortifying the town," he said, adding that UN helicopters were patrolling the area. Former Nigerian president Obasanjo arrived in the country on Friday and met with Kabila and other senior officials. He said earlier Saturday that Nkunda had telephoned him last week and "explained that he is full of expectations for us to meet and talk face to face." "Nobody can say for certain what he wants... but I will get authentically from him what he wants," Obasanjo told journalists, adding that Kabila had not placed any conditions upon his meeting with Nkunda. A spokesman for Nkunda's National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), Bertrand Bisimwa, told AFP a meeting had been planned and should take place later Saturday or on Sunday. Obasanjo could see Nkunda in the rebel stronghold of Rutshuru, about 75 kilometres (45 miles) north of Goma, he added. Nkunda has an estimated 5,000 troops, while Kinshasa has sent 20,000 to Nord-Kivu and has repeatedly called on Nkunda to demobilise. The general says he is defending the region's Tutsi minority, in particular against Rwandan Hutu rebels who fled their country when Tutsis took power their in the wake of the 1994 genocide. Congolese Foreign Minister Alexis Thambwe Mwamba said Saturday on a visit to the Rwandan capital Kigali that Kinshasa would allow Rwandan intelligence officers to join troops operating against the Hutu rebels. Nkunda's troops have surrounded Goma for more than two weeks, forcing UN peacekeepers to send reinforcements to protect the city and its estimated 500,000-strong civilian population. The African Union's Peace and Security Commissioner Ramtane Lamamra called Saturday for the United Nations to send more peacekeepers. Lamamra, who arrived in the country on Friday and will travel on to Rwanda, said the AU was contributing to diplomatic efforts to revive peace accords. Also Saturday, Angola repeated a denial that it had sent troops over the border to quell the unrest. Meanwhile the UN's World Food Programme agency continued the delivery of aid begun Friday to 12,000 displaced people in rebel-held Rutshuru and nearby Kiwanja. The eastern province of Nord-Kivu has been the site of rebellions that have plunged Congo into wars on two separate occasions, from 1996 to 1997 and from 1998 to 2003. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article Average (0 votes) Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Enlarge Photo A Congolese child eats flour fallen from a broken sack of maize distributed by the World Food Program outside a church in Kiwanja north of the provincial capital of Goma. UN special envoy Olusegun Obasanjo arrived in the besieged Congolese town of Goma on Saturday ahead of a meeting with rebel chief Laurent Nkunda aimed at ending months of fighting. Most Popular – Top Stories Viewed Obama rumored to favor Clinton as top diplomat Bin Laden is isolated, focused on his own security: CIA Earth would be heading to a freeze without CO2 emissions Ancient 4,300-year-old pyramid discovered in Egypt US space-funeral company plans to launch lunar cemetery View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular

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