India, Dec. 21 -- The UN Security Council has urged Rwanda to withdraw its forces from eastern Congo and extended the UN peacekeeping mission in Congo, known as MONUSCO, for a year, as fighting in the region escalated despite a US-mediated peace deal.
The UN's most powerful body on Friday condemned an offensive by the Rwanda-backed M23, demanded that Rwanda stop supporting the rebels and withdraw its troops. The Security Council also renewed the peacekeepers' mandate, keeping about 11,500 military personnel in the country, in a unanimously adopted resolution. The resolution comes as M23 claimed Wednesday to have withdrawn from Uvira, a strategic city in eastern Congo, which it seized last week, after pressure from the US. Congo's Governmen...