Rwanda’s Hutu rebels in the DRC claimed on Friday they had inflicted heavy losses on the forces involved in the joint operation launched against them.

A top military official says a joint Congolese-Rwandan military operation to rout out Hutu militias will be finished by the end of the month.

The armies of the DRC and Rwanda clashed with fighters trying to retake a village and killed four of them, a military spokesperson said on Tuesday.

Tutsi rebel leader Laurent Nkunda has been arrested in Rwandan territory after he tried to resist a joint Rwandan-Congolese military operation.

Proceeds from the control of lucrative natural resources remain a key driver of the insecurity in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda said on Monday he would fight African peacekeepers if they backed government troops against him.

Tutsi rebels in eastern DRC have been accused of summarily killing civilians as they seized a town that had been the stronghold of Hutu militias.

United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday hailed as a ”significant breakthrough” last week’s agreement by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda to deal with…