GREAT LAKES: IRIN-CEA Update 1,048
DRC: Bunia reported tense but quiet
The weekend rebellion in the northeastern town of Bunia, caused by a split
in the governing Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie-Mouvement de
liberation (RCD-ML), appears to have been contained. Ugandan officials
confirmed that the movement's leader Professor Ernest Wamba dia Wamba was
back in control after an attempt by his deputy Mbusa Nyamwisi to topple
him. According to some reports, Nyamwisi's whereabouts are uncertain.
Fighting broke out over the weekend around Wamba's residence as militiamen
loyal to Nyamwisi sought to oust the professor. Sources in Bunia said the
situation was still tense, but had quietened down. Ugandan army troops,
which support Wamba, are patrolling the town, and the local radio, which
was briefly taken over by Nyamwisi's rebels to announce the coup against
Wamba, is now back under the control of the mainstream faction. [See also
IRIN story of 6 November at
http://www.reliefweb.int/IRIN/cea/countrystories/drc/20001106a.phtml ]
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