The United Nations appealed to church leaders in northeastern Congo on Saturday to help find two missing agency military observers, after a cease-fire aimed at ending several days of vicious tribal fighting in the area took hold. There have been reports that the unarmed observers — one Jordanian, the other Nigerian — were killed in the fighting between the rival Lendu and Hema tribes, said Col. Daniel Vollot, commander of the U.N. forces in the region. “But I don’t want to believe that,” he said. The clashes, which have killed at least 100 people, began last week after Uganda withdrew 6,000 troops from Congo’s resource-rich Ituri region and its capital, Bunia. The cease-fire was signed Friday and the United Nations is trying to assemble a peacekeeping force to augment more than 750 U.N. soldiers from Uruguay already there. Full Story
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