Congolese flee army's hunt for dissident general

GISENYI, Rwanda – Olive Kukamujeni does not know what fate met two of her children when a gun battle between Congolese troops and fighters loyal to a renegade general erupted in her home village.

“The fighting was so hard, everybody ran,” Kukamujeni told Reuters at the border with Rwanda, exhausted by her ordeal. “I don’t know if they died or not.”

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