DRC: Hope as DRC rebels sign new peace deal

Almost 30 of the militias which have been destabilising the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) north-east Ituri province with ethnic and political violence, agreed at the weekend to lay down arms and join the national peace process. They signed a disarmament agreement in Kinshasa after four days of negotiations with the power-sharing DRC transitional government and the United Nations peacekeeping mission Monuc.