From Times Online:
As a rebel militia prepares to defeat a drunken army, a catastrophe is looming
A humanitarian disaster was predicted by aid officials in Congo last night if a fragile ceasefire ordered by commanders of a rebel army fails to hold.
Hundreds of thousands fled Goma, the regional capital, and the surrounding countryside in a mass exodus last week when Congolese Tutsi rebel forces commanded by the renegade general Laurent Nkunda captured several key towns and threatened to attack the strategic eastern city.
Defended by only 150 United Nations troops, Goma is directly in the path of rebel forces.
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