Congo-Kinshasa: DRC-Rwanda: Monuc Arrests Suspected Rwandan Soldiers in Eastern Congo

Kinshasa — The UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), known as MONUC, announced on Wednesday that it had arrested about 100 people suspected to be Rwandan troops, amid persistent reports of their incursion into eastern Congo.

"According to the head of office of MONUC-Goma, a patrol of blue helmets [UN] soldiers found about one hundred soldiers who were spotted in Rutshuru [in the east] and suspected of being Rwandans," Patricia Tome, the MONUC director of information, said on Wednesday. "MONUC is trying to confirm the identity of these soldiers."

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