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Article: African leaders urge DRC ceasefire.
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- Aljazeera.net
- Article date:
- November 7, 2008
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11/7/2008 5:07:31 PM
African leaders have called for an immediate ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as heavy fighting between government forces and a Tutsi militia continued in the country's North Kivu province.
Regional leaders demanded an end to the clashes and the establishment of a "humanitarian corridor" to aid the thousands of refugees displaced by the fighting.
"There should be an immediate ceasefire by all the armed men and militia in North Kivu," said Moses Wetangula, Kenya's foreign minister, reading a communique agreed by seven African leaders at their meeting in Nairobi, Kenya's capital, on Friday.
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