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 BUKAVU, Congo (AP) - Thousands of foreign militiamen in Congo appeared to ignore Friday's deadline to leave this central African country or be evicted by force, the government said.
Earlier this month, President Joseph Kabila gave the estimated 12,000 to 15,000 fighters — mostly extremist Rwandan militiamen blamed for Rwanda's 1994 genocide and a smaller number of Ugandan and Burundian fighters — an ultimatum to leave or face Congo army troops backed by U.N. peacekeepers.
"There is no indication that any of them have left Congo," Delion Kimbu, a Defense Ministry spokesman in the capital, Kinshasa, told The Associated Press by telephone.
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