Congo-Kinshasa: Site of Recent Clashes Now Calm, UN Envoy Says Following Visit

1 September 2008

Alan Doss, the top United Nations official in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), says calm has returned to Rutshuru in the country's volatile North Kivu province following last week's clashes between Government forces and armed rebel groups.

Mr. Doss, who is also head of the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC - known as MONUC - conducted a joint mission to the area on Sunday, along with the country's Defence Minister, Tshikez Diemu, to assess security in the wake of the fighting.

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