Nothing about the five million dead though, huh?
What agenda is being pushed (and what of Darfur and Somalia)?
Also see: The EU's Excuse to Conquer the Congo
Also type "Congo" into my blog search for more.
"UN to send aid convoy into Congo rebel zone; Peacekeepers to accompany relief mission" by Hez Holland, Reuters | November 3, 2008
GOMA, Congo - A United Nations aid convoy protected by UN peacekeepers will head into a rebel-held zone of east Congo today to try to reach tens of thousands of civilians displaced by fighting, the UN said yesterday.
Look at 'em, readers. They do NOT DESERVE THIS!!!!
A woman cooked yesterday at a camp for refugees near Goma in eastern Congo. The United Nations is trying to help tens of thousands of civilians displaced by fighting in the country. (Karel Prinsloo/ Associated Press)
The convoy will group staff and resources from UN agencies and humanitarian groups. It will leave Goma, the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, and travel north to Rutshuru, which was taken by Tutsi rebels Tuesday.
"Our priority is to restart the activities at many health centers in the area of Rutshuru and Kiwanja. We're taking health supplies, water, and sanitation," Gloria Fernandez, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Congo told reporters in Goma.
It will be the first coordinated international effort to reach at least 50,000 displaced civilians whom UN officials fear have left unprotected camps around Rutshuru, 45 miles north of Goma. The refugees are thought to be roaming the bush, seeking safe shelter, food, water, and care.
The recent offensive by fighters loyal to rebel General Laurent Nkunda, combined with killing and looting by renegade Congolese army troops, turned an already difficult humanitarian situation into one described as catastrophic by aid groups.
Our guys?
Fernandez called on both the forces of Nkunda and the Congolese army to let civilians move freely to areas where they felt safe and could receive help. Nkunda has announced the opening up of "humanitarian corridors" through rebel lines. European, US, and UN envoys have crisscrossed the Great Lakes region in recent days, trying to prevent the newly resurgent Tutsi rebellion in the eastern Congolese borderlands from escalating into a rerun of Congo's 1998-2003 war.
Are they trying to prevent it or drive it?
After a weekend diplomatic shuttle that took them to Congo, Rwanda, and Tanzania, the French and British foreign ministers called for more international aid to Congo's North Kivu. A cease-fire by Nkunda appeared to be holding yesterday, although authorities in Goma declared a night time curfew.
At Kibati, north of Goma, some of the 70,000 refugees there said they were desperate for protection and would welcome troops from Europe to bolster the 17,000 UN peacekeepers already deployed in Congo. "We want to return to our village, but only if there is security. I have not eaten for six days," said one elderly woman, Rgwasa Nyakaruhije. "We would be very happy if they sent in a European Union force."
Around her, displaced civilians huddled in groups in the muddy grass, some under umbrellas or parasols. While appealing for more international aid and the securing of routes to deliver it, the French and British ministers, Bernard Kouchner and David Miliband, stopped short of announcing a deployment of European Union troops to Congo.
West always delaying when it comes to the Africans, which really calls into question the intent. They can INVADE countries any time they want, so WTF is with the help?
Instead, the ministers recommended reinforcing the United Nations peacekeeping force in Congo, already the world's biggest but overextended in a nation the size of Western Europe.
If they can't keep the peace in the Congo, then they are useless anywhere!!
The aid group Oxfam said EU foreign ministers meeting in the French city of Marseille today should agree to provide European troops as support for the UN's peacekeeping force in eastern Congo so that aid agencies can deliver assistance.
That's how globalists get into places, which again makes you wonder.....
An estimated one million people have been forced from their homes in North Kivu by two years of violence that has persisted despite the end of the 1998-2003 war in the vast, former Belgian colony, which is rich in copper, cobalt, gold, and diamonds.
Why WAIT SO LONG to MENTION, MSM?
Of course, THAT is why the WEST is THERE!!!
Kouchner and Miliband backed political solutions, including a regional summit that could be held next week to bring together the Congolese and Rwandan presidents, Joseph Kabila and Paul Kagame, to discuss the conflict on their borders. Both Congo and Rwanda have accused each other of backing rival rebel groups. --more--"
Yup, MORE globalist TALK why people SUFFER and DIE!!!!
