JOMBA, Congo — Congo’s main rebel leader promised a U.N. envoy Sunday to support a cease-fire and U.N. efforts to end the fighting, and the diplomat said he hoped the warring sides would hold peace talks in Kenya.
As more heavy fighting was reported in eastern Congo, the envoy, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, met with rebel leader Laurent Nkunda for the first time, after talking in recent days with President Joseph Kabila and the leader of neighboring Angola.
Obasanjo flew by helicopter to the rebel-held town of Jomba, near the Ugandan border. After a two-hour meeting in a church compound, Obasanjo said the rebel leader agreed to maintain a fragile cease-fire in the Central African nation.
Later in the regional capital of Goma, Obasanjo said he expected talks between the warring parties to take place in Nairobi, Kenya.
