The Guardian is alone in splashing again on the troubles facing the
Democratic Republic of Congo. The outline of a desperately needed peace process to end the latest flare-up in the Congo war "was emerging last night", the paper believes.
"[The foreign secretary David] Miliband and [his French counterpart Bernard] Kouchner delivered tough messages to the leaders of Rwanda and Congo, saying Europe would not stand by and watch another cycle of the conflict that has its origins in the Rwandan genocide of 1994, and that has since claimed five million lives and created more than one million refugees. 'Our message was that the world is watching,' Miliband said."
The Times cartoonist Morten Morland is sceptical, depicting Miliband
as guaranteeing nothing more than repeated rhetoric.
Chris McGreal, the Guardian's Africa correspondent, wrote an excellent piece earlier this year noting how the region has become known as Africa's "first world war" with its foreign armies and invasions.
The Independent's diplomatic editor, Anne Penketh, explains why the Rwandan president, Paul Kagame, is crucial to any solution.
You get some idea of the conditions people are living in browsing through recent Getty photos.
Or by watching, thanks to gorilla.cd, the panic as fighting takes place.
Based on an extract from the Wrap, theguardian.com's digest of the day's news.
