At least 15 cease-fires have failed to take in the last four days. This war could be fought in the jungle. The soldiers are very safe in their trenches. Artillery shells rain down on city On Thursday morning, dozens of artillery shells rained down on residential neighborhoods along the Congo River, as the two combatants exchanged artillery fire from their positions on opposite banks of the river. Civilians caught up in the fighting have grown bitter and resentful toward both sides.
Somebody has to do something.
Congolese President Laurent Kabila, whose government is at war with the rebel factions backed by Uganda and Rwanda, called on the world to demand that both nations pull out of the Congo. No excuse for it,' Holbrooke says Richard Holbrooke, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, condemned the fighting. There is simply no excuse for it. U.N. Spokesman Fred Eckhard said in a written statement. The fighting in Kisangani is one of many violations of an agreement signed last year in Lusaka, the Zambian capital, meant to end a conflict in which the government of Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila is backed by Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia.