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 KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - A truce between troops loyal to Congo's two presidential candidates held Wednesday and calm returned to the capital, officials said, after three days of Kinshasa's worst violence in several years.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged the rivals to meet "as quickly as possible to ease tensions," U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said at U.N. headquarters in New York.
He said top U.N. envoy William Lacy Swing was in Congo "pushing hard" to arrange a meeting of President Joseph Kabila and former rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba.
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