Word: rutshuru
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...phone to call Father George at a nearby Catholic mission. He contacted officials at MONUC and asked for an armored rescue but says they refused. A few hours later, the rebels carried Sister Marķa to the front line. From there, a group of nuns took her to the Rutshuru hospital, where both her legs were amputated. The next day, Father George again asked MONUC to take Sister Marķa to its base for an air evacuation. Again MONUC refused, and the nuns took her themselves once more. Almost 36 hours after the U.N. first learned of her being injured...
...forces closing in on the regional capital Goma and facing a collapsing national army and a weak and isolated President, his threat to take the Congolese capital Kinshasa is suddenly one to take seriously. Nkunda's decision to hold a rally and press conference on Nov. 22 in Rutshuru, newly captured by his forces, was a chance to discover what kind of leader he might prove to be. (See pictures of Congo on the brink...
...fighting dissipated Wednesday and the refugees are now heading home, desperate for food and shelter. The United Nations High Commission on Refugees, the world organization's refugee agency, said it was investigating reports that rebels had destroyed camps housing some 50,000 internally displaced people in the town of Rutshuru, about 50 miles north of Goma. "Hundreds of thousands of people who have already suffered far too much are in danger and in desperate need of help," UNHCR High Commissioner Antonio Guterres said on Friday...
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