Sometimes I'm afraid the whole continent is on fire
Congo Tells Rwanda Troops to Stay Out
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KINSHASA, Congo, Dec. 3 (AP) - President Joseph Kabila accused Rwanda on Friday of trying to cause a confrontation with Congo in an effort to disrupt Congolese moves to secure the country and move toward elections next year.
It was Mr. Kabila's first public statement since Rwanda's president, Paul Kagame, began warning last week that his country would act against 8,000 to 10,000 Rwanda Hutu rebels taking shelter in eastern Congo. Rwanda's warnings have raised fears of renewed war in Central Africa.
Mr. Kagame insists that a five-month-old disarmament program led by the United Nations has so far failed to neutralize the Rwandan Hutu rebels.
Rwanda twice invaded eastern Congo, in 1996 and 1998, to hunt down Rwandan Hutu involved in the 1994 genocide of more than half a million people.
