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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa?
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From: epicure12/5/2004 10:38:03 AM
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Congo Tells Rwanda Troops to Stay Out
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: December 4, 2004

KINSHASA, Congo, Dec. 3 (AP) - President Joseph Kabila accused Rwanda on Friday of trying to cause a confrontation with Congo in an effort to disrupt Congolese moves to secure the country and move toward elections next year.

It was Mr. Kabila's first public statement since Rwanda's president, Paul Kagame, began warning last week that his country would act against 8,000 to 10,000 Rwanda Hutu rebels taking shelter in eastern Congo. Rwanda's warnings have raised fears of renewed war in Central Africa.

Mr. Kagame insists that a five-month-old disarmament program led by the United Nations has so far failed to neutralize the Rwandan Hutu rebels.

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Rwanda twice invaded eastern Congo, in 1996 and 1998, to hunt down Rwandan Hutu involved in the 1994 genocide of more than half a million people.

The Rwandan authorities "are working to promote insecurity and instability in our country, with the aim of disrupting the transition process and preventing the holding of elections set for next year," he said.

Congo authorities say Rwanda failed during its own five years in control in eastern Congo to eliminate the Rwandan Hutu rebels, and accuse Rwanda of seeking ways to maintain its influence in Congo's resource-rich east.

Rwanda denied Friday that its forces were behind suspicious troop movements reported by the United Nations force in Congo.
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