East DR Congo truce monitors to begin operations Tuesday

Goma, Dr Congo (AFP) Nov 4, 2024

A unit monitoring a truce between the Congolese army and Rwanda-backed rebels will be officially launched on Tuesday, ceasefire-broker Angola said, as the rebels made fresh gains in eastern DR Congo. The largely ethnic Tutsi M23 rebel militia has seized swathes of the Democratic Republic of Congo's troubled east since 2021, displacing thousands while creating a humanitarian crisis. A cea