Photos: A shaky peace after government returns to Goma, DRC
December 6, 2012
A Congolese demonstrator wearing a green armband looks on in Goma on December 6, 2012 as a small group of youth activists demonstrates, protesting the inaction of the UN and the government, after M23 rebels took the city on November 20. Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo will start talks with Kinshasa's government in Kampala on December 7, to "resolve the conflict" in the volatile and mineral-rich east, a Ugandan official said. PHIL MOORE/AFP/Getty Images
Congolese demonstrators holding placards criticising the government and the United Nations sit beside a burning tyre in Goma on December 6, 2012 as a small group of youth activists demonstrates, protesting the inaction of the UN and the government, after M23 rebels took the city on November 20. Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo will start talks with Kinshasa's government in Kampala on December 7, to "resolve the conflict" in the volatile and mineral-rich east, a Ugandan official said. PHIL MOORE/AFP/Getty Images
Internally displaced Congolese wait for food to be distributed by WFP at the Mugunga 3 camp outside the eastern Congolese town of Goma Sunday Dec. 2, 2012. Rebels say they will take back Congo's city of Goma if the government does not agree to negotiate with them by Monday. The M23 rebels completed their withdrawal of the eastern Congo city on Saturday, in compliance with an agreement reached between the rebel group and a regional body. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
A child watches as Congolese government army (FARDC) soldiers return to the military barracks in Goma eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo on December 3, 2012. Democratic Republic of Congo troops entered the eastern mining hub of Goma Monday, two days after rebel M23 fighters ended an almost fortnight-long occupation in line with a regionally brokered deal. The rebels are demanding that the Congolese government begin complex negotiations with them and have threatened to march back into Goma if Kinshasa reneges on a pledge they say was made to begin talks. PHIL MOORE/AFP/Getty Images
Congoles M23 rebels (L) pass a truck of police officers as they withdraw on December 1, 2012 from the city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Hundreds of Congolese M23 rebels began a withdrawal on December 1 from Goma as promised under a regionally brokered deal, after a 12-day occupation of the city. Around 300 rebels, army mutineers who seized Goma last week in a lightning advance, were seen by an AFP reporter driving in a convoy of looted trucks north out the main town in Democratic Republic of Congo's mineral-rich east. PHIL MOORE/AFP/Getty Images
TOPSHOTS A funeral cortege drives past trucks of Congolese M23 rebels withdraw on December 1, 2012 from the city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Hundreds of Congolese M23 rebels began a withdrawal on December 1 from Goma as promised under a regionally brokered deal, after a 12-day occupation of the city. Around 300 rebels, army mutineers who seized Goma last week in a lightning advance, were seen by an AFP reporter driving in a convoy of looted trucks north out the main town in Democratic Republic of Congo's mineral-rich east. PHIL MOORE/AFP/Getty Images
United Nations (U.N.) soldiers pass M-23 rebel fighters in a truck, as the rebels withdraw from Goma December 1, 2012. Rebel fighters, singing and brandishing weapons, pulled out of Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern border city of Goma on Saturday, raising hopes regional peace efforts could advance negotiations to end the insurgency. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
Police officers stand in a line following the withdrawal of M-23 rebel fighters from Goma December 1, 2012. Rebel fighters, singing and brandishing weapons, pulled out of Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern border city of Goma on Saturday, raising hopes regional peace efforts could advance negotiations to end the insurgency. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
A boy dances to celebrate government army FARDC soldiers' return to Goma December 3, 2012. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
People dance to celebrate government army FARDC soldiers return to Goma December 3, 2012. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
Residents of the district around the military barracks celebrate as a Congolese government army (FARDC) soldier arrives back in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo on December 3, 2012. Democratic Republic of Congo troops entered the eastern mining hub of Goma Monday, two days after rebel M23 fighters ended an almost fortnight-long occupation in line with a regionally brokered deal. The rebels are demanding that the Congolese government begin complex negotiations with them and have threatened to march back into Goma if Kinshasa reneges on a pledge they say was made to begin talks. PHIL MOORE/AFP/Getty Images
A government army FARDC soldier stands in the town of Sake, some 27 km (17 miles) west of Goma December 3, 2012. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
A M23 rebel fighter walks past a resident as they withdraw from the town of Sake, some 27 km (17 miles) west of Goma November 30, 2012. A rebel pullback from Goma, seized by M23 from fleeing United Nations-backed government forces on November 20, would signal some progress in international efforts to halt the eight-month-old insurgency in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
An M23 reebl carries equipment through Sake having left his base in the hills north of the town in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on November 30, 2012. Hundreds of Congolese rebels withdrew on November 30 from frontline positions around Goma as promised under a regionally brokered deal, while police entered the key eastern city to take over control. PHIL MOORE/AFP/Getty Images
M23 rebel fighters walk as they withdraw near the town of Sake, some 42 km (26 miles) west of Goma November 30, 2012. A rebel pullback from Goma, seized by M23 from fleeing United Nations-backed government forces on November 20, would signal some progress in international efforts to halt the eight-month-old insurgency in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
M23 rebel fighters walk as they withdraw near the town of Sake, some 42 km (26 miles) west of Goma November 30, 2012. A rebel pullback from Goma, seized by M23 from fleeing United Nations-backed government forces on November 20, would signal some progress in international efforts to halt the eight-month-old insurgency in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
M23 rebel fighters walk as they withdraw near the town of Sake, some 42 km (26 miles) west of Goma November 30, 2012. A rebel pullback from Goma, seized by M23 from fleeing United Nations-backed government forces on November 20, would signal some progress in international efforts to halt the eight-month-old insurgency in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
M23 rebel fighters sit in a truck as they withdraw near the town of Sake, some 42 km (26 miles) west of Goma November 30, 2012. A rebel pullback from Goma, seized by M23 from fleeing United Nations-backed government forces on November 20, would signal some progress in international efforts to halt the eight-month-old insurgency in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
Congolese national police officers arrive at a port on Lake Kivu, Goma November 30, 2012 as Congolese Revolutionary Army (CRA) rebels prepare their final withdrawal from Goma city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A Congolese government army commander said on Thursday only war could end a rebellion in the east by Tutsi-led insurgents as the rebels prepared to withdraw from the border city of Goma under a deal brokered by Uganda. REUTERS/James Akena
A government army FARDC soldier sits inside a building in a military base in Goma December 3, 2012. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
A Congolese national police officer prepares to disembark from a boat at the port in the city of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on December 2, 2012. After M23 rebels pulled out of Goma yesterday, 166 government police officers arrived this morning from Bukavu. PHIL MOORE/AFP/Getty Images
Congolese national police officers gather at the Afia Stadium in the city of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on December 2, 2012. M23 rebels pulled out of Goma yesterday, leaving the United Nations and the police in the city, many of whom had deserted to M23 when it fell to rebel control. PHIL MOORE/AFP/Getty Images
Congolese government policemen walk on December 4, 2012 alongside the runway near to a United Nations armoured personnel carrier at the airport in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, during a visit by Congo's interior minister. The airport was held by United Nations forces whilst M23 overran the city two weeks ago, before leaving on December 1. Government troops returned to the city on December 3. PHIL MOORE/AFP/Getty Images
The Democratic Republic of the Congo's Interior Minister, Richard Muyej Mangez (C), talks via a translator (R) with Commander Bainsi Ponnappa (L), the head of the United Nations mission in North Kivu, at Goma's airport in the east of DR Congo on December 4, 2012. Minister Muyej told Commander Ponnappa "you have the utmost admiration of the government" after the United Nations secured control of the airport whilst M23 rebels overran the city two weeks ago. PHIL MOORE/AFP/Getty Images
Congolese M23 rebel president Jean Marie Runiga poses for a portrait at his hideout near the Congo-Uganda border town of Bunagana Wednesday Dec. 5 2012. Speaking to the Associated Press, Runiga said they would not accept for the Kinshasa government to pay the M23 expenses at the scheduled Kampala talks later this week, as the two are still in a belligerent state. M23 rebels completed their withdrawal from the strategic eastern city of Goma on Saturday, in compliance with an agreement reached between the rebel group and a regional body, they could still be seen in positions three kilometers from Goma airport. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
An internally displaced Congolese woman waits for food to be distributed by WFP at the Mugunga 3 camp outside the eastern Congolese town of Goma Sunday Dec. 2, 2012. Rebels say they will take back Congo's city of Goma if the government does not agree to negotiate with them by Monday. The M23 rebels completed their withdrawal of the eastern Congo city on Saturday, in compliance with an agreement reached between the rebel group and a regional body. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Internally displaced Congolese women wait for food to be distributed by WFP at the Mugunga 3 camp outside the eastern Congolese town of Goma Sunday Dec. 2, 2012. Rebels say they will take back Congo's city of Goma if the government does not agree to negotiate with them by Monday. The M23 rebels completed their withdrawal of the eastern Congo city on Saturday, in compliance with an agreement reached between the rebel group and a regional body. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Sacks of food aid from the World Food Programme donated by the United Kingdom and the United States sit in the back of a truck at the Mugunga III camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on December 2, 2012. UN refugee agency officials reported cases of looting and rape in an attack late yesterday on the giant Mugunga camp, which lies about 10 kilometres (six miles) west of Goma and is home to up to 35,000 displaced people. PHIL MOORE/AFP/Getty Images
A Congolese national police officer directs internally displaced Congolese women waiting for food to be distributed by WFP at the Mugunga 3 camp outside the eastern Congolese town of Goma Sunday Dec. 2, 2012. Rebels say they will take back Congo's city of Goma if the government does not agree to negotiate with them by Monday. The M23 rebels completed their withdrawal of the eastern Congo city on Saturday, in compliance with an agreement reached between the rebel group and a regional body. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
An internally displaced Congolese woman waits for food to be distributed by WFP at the Mugunga 3 camp outside the eastern Congolese town of Goma Sunday Dec. 2, 2012. Rebels say they will take back Congo's city of Goma if the government does not agree to negotiate with them by Monday. The M23 rebels completed their withdrawal of the eastern Congo city on Saturday, in compliance with an agreement reached between the rebel group and a regional body. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Two MONUSCO UN soldiers stand guard in Goma's port as Police Nationale du Congo officers who fled Goma when M23 rebels took over the city Nov. 18 2012, return on a barge to the port of Goma, eastern Congo, Friday Nov. 30, 2012. The police force were returning to resume control on Friday, as had been agreed by the regional bloc. Rebels in Congo believed to be backed by Rwanda postponed their departure Friday from the key eastern city of Goma by 48 hours for ìlogistical reasons,î defying for a second time an ultimatum set by neighboring African countries and backed by Western diplomats. The delay raises the possibility that the M23 rebels donít intend to leave the city they seized last week, giving credence to a United Nations Group of Experts report which argues that neighboring Rwanda is using the rebels as a proxy to annex territory in mineral-rich eastern Congo. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
A Congolese demonstrator jumps over a burning tyre in Goma on December 6, 2012 as a small group of youth activists demonstrates, protesting the inaction of the UN and the government, after M23 rebels took the city on November 20. Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo will start talks with Kinshasa's government in Kampala on December 7, to "resolve the conflict" in the volatile and mineral-rich east, a Ugandan official said. PHIL MOORE/AFP/Getty Images
An internally displaced Congolese boy waits for food to be distributed by WFP at the Mugunga 3 camp outside the eastern Congolese town of Goma Sunday Dec. 2, 2012. Rebels say they will take back Congo's city of Goma if the government does not agree to negotiate with them by Monday. The M23 rebels completed their withdrawal of the eastern Congo city on Saturday, in compliance with an agreement reached between the rebel group and a regional body. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
A M23 rebel stands with his weapon as M23 rebels withdraw from the Masisi and Sake areas in the eastern Congo town of Sake, some 27 kms west of Goma, Friday Nov. 30, 2012. Rebels in Congo believed to be backed by Rwanda postponed their departure Friday from the key eastern city of Goma by 48 hours for ìlogistical reasons,î defying for a second time an ultimatum set by neighboring African countries and backed by Western diplomats. The delay raises the possibility that the M23 rebels donít intend to leave the city they seized last week, giving credence to a United Nations Group of Experts report which argues that neighboring Rwanda is using the rebels as a proxy to annex territory in mineral-rich eastern Congo. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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