Following helicopter and foot patrols in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the United Nations mission in the country has found evidence of hostilities by “an armed, organized but unknown military presence,” but has not been able to identify it, the head of the mission’s peacekeeping troops said today. Speaking to journalists at their weekly briefing, Col. Patrick Colas des Francs said most of the evidence pointing to the presence of “several hundred armed soldiers” was concentrated in the triangle formed by Goma, Walikale and the south bank of Lake Edward and comprised burned villages and freshly evacuated bivouacs. Full Story
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