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Warring Factions in Congo’s Civil War Meet

HeadlineJun 16, 2000

The U.N. Security Council is hoping a two-day meeting of the warring factions in Congo’s two-year-old civil war will boost the prospects for peace and cement the withdrawal of Rwandan and Ugandan forces from the northern city of Kisangani. The council is negotiating a French-sponsored draft resolution that would demand the two former allies withdraw immediately from the city, where they exchanged intense fire earlier this month, killing an estimated 300 civilians. But the draft also calls on Rwanda and Uganda and the three other foreign armies fighting in Congo to withdraw from the country as a whole, as called for by a peace agreement signed last year in Lusaka, Zambia, and threatens possible sanctions if they don’t.

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