THE new leader of a Rwandan-backed rebel group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has vowed to restore his movement’s credibility among the war-weary people of rebel-held eastern Congo. Adolphe Onusumba was appointed president of the Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD), and said the rebellion’s previous leadership had failed to win the hearts and minds of the people it was supposed to be fighting for. The rebels began their struggle to oust Congo President Laurent Kabila in August 1998, after troops from neighbouring Rwanda failed in their bid to seize the capital. – Reuters