Rebels in Congo were on the outskirts of the eastern city of Goma yesterday after pushing back UN peacekeepers and government troops, but a spokesman said they did not plan to take the city.
In four days of battles, the rebels have advanced closer than at any time in their eight-month-old uprising to Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu and home to the headquarters of the UN peacekeeping mission in eastern Congo.
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