DRC: Government troops recapture Kalehe, deploy along border with Rwanda

Calm has returned to Kalehe in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) province of South Kivu after government troops regained control of the town from dissident soldiers, Sebastien Lapierre, a spokesman for the UN Mission in the country, known as MONUC, told IRIN on Tuesday. The dissident troops, led by Gen Laurent Nkunda, had on 8 June retreated to Kalehe from the South Kivu capital of Bukavu, following a weeklong occupation of the latter town that left nearly 100 people dead.