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Congo rebel backs UN peace plan, fighting persists
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-11-17 10:58

JOMBA, Congo -- Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda agreed on Sunday to take part in UN-backed peace talks, but fighting between the army and rebels raged on in the east despite his declared support for a ceasefire.

Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo (L) speaks to a Congolese rebel as they meet in the village of Jnomba in eastern Congo, November 16, 2008. [Agencies]

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After meeting United Nations special envoy Olusegun Obasanjo at Jomba in Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, Nkunda said he had agreed to three requests from him, to respect a ceasefire, open a humanitarian corridor to aid refugees, and support the UN peace initiative.

But he had asked Obasanjo, a former Nigerian head of state, to tell Congolese President Joseph Kabila's government to also respect a suspension of military hostilities.

"We are behind him (Obasanjo) and we are going to do our part so we can get on with this peace," said Nkunda, wearing a grey suit and holding a cane topped with a silver eagle's head.

Speaking later in the North Kivu provincial capital Goma, before flying to Kigali in neighbouring Rwanda, Obasanjo said the Tutsi rebel chief had agreed to take part in UN-sponsored peace negotiations in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.

But he did not specify a date and did not expect it would involve face-to-face talks with Kabila, which Nkunda wants.

However, Obasanjo, who met Kabila on Saturday, said the president had told him he was "not averse to negotiation".

Nkunda hosted Obasanjo at his home village of Jomba in the foothills of the Virunga mountains, close to the Rwandan and Ugandan borders. Afterwards, the two briefly danced with rebel fighters and children outside a church compound.

But as they met, UN peacekeepers reported heavy fighting between Nkunda's National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) rebels and Congo's army near the village of Ndeko, 110 km (70 miles) north of Goma.

The UN trouble-shooter is seeking to prevent the fighting in North Kivu from escalating into a repeat of a wider 1998-2003 Congo war that sucked in six neighbouring states.

Obasanjo, who said the talks with Nkunda went "extremely well", said the rebel leader had also agreed to a tripartite committee to monitor ceasefire violations, but on the condition that the UN peacekeeping force in Congo was not involved. Nkunda says the UN peacekeepers are biased against him.

Weeks of combat between Nkunda's Tutsi rebels and government troops and their militia allies have displaced around a quarter of a million civilians, creating a humanitarian crisis.

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