UN must get its act together in the Congo

IT IS disappointing that some commentators view the dispatch of a small, UN-backed military force to the town of Bunia as a sufficient response to the horrors currently plaguing the Ituri region of the Congo.

Wed, 25 Jun, 2003 - 01:00

As Anneke Van Woudenberg of Human Rights Watch has pointed out, "Bunia is just a tiny part of Ituri.

We hear of massacres taking place outside Bunia that the French will be utterly unable to stop.

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