Monday, February 25, 2013

African leaders sign deal aimed at peace in eastern DR Congo

(Reuters) - Eleven African leaders signed a peace deal yesterday aimed at ending two decades of conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo and paving the way for the deployment of a new military brigade to take on rebel groups.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who witnessed the signing in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, said he hoped the accord would bring “an era of peace and stability” for Congo and by extension Africa’s Great Lakes, and added that he would

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