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Congo, Humanitarian Assistance, United Kingdom »
Foreign Secretary David Miliband is flying to the Democratic Republic of Congo, amid fierce fighting between government and rebel forces.
He and his French counterpart Bernard Kouchner will also visit Rwanda to impress on both countries the need to find a solution “urgently”.
More than 200,000 people are estimated to have been forced from their homes since fighting resumed in August.
Georgia »
An explosion has destroyed a key bridge linking Georgia’s breakaway republic of Abkhazia with the rest of the country.
Georgian officials and Abkhazian authorities blamed each other for the blast. Residents of Abkhazia’s Gali district had used the bridge to reach Georgia’s Zugdidi region. Georgian authorities have called the explosion an effort by separatist and Russian officials to cut off Abkhazia and another breakaway Georgian region, South Ossetia, from the rest of the country.
Meanwhile, the chief of the European Union monitors in Georgia, Hansjoerg Haber, asked Russia to give specific …

