A child carries water in a makeshift displaced persons camp outside the MONUC base in the village of Kiwanja, north of Goma, eastern Congo, Friday, Nov. 7, 2008. Fighting resumed between rebels and Congolese forces on the outskirts of Goma.
A Mai Mai militiaman lies dead in the village of Kiwanja, north of Goma, eastern Congo, Thursday Nov. 6, 2008. A fragile cease-fire in Congo appeared to be unraveling Thursday as the U.N. said battles between warlord Laurent Nkunda's rebels and the army spread to another town in the volatile country's east. The latest clashes pit the pro-government Mai Mai militia against the rebels.
United Nations peacekeepers patrol in territory held by Laurent Nkunda's rebel movement Monday Nov. 3, 2008, near Rutshuru, in eastern Congo. Rebel leader Nkunda went on the offensive Aug. 28 and brought his fighters to the edge of Goma last week before declaring a unilateral cease-fire. The conflict is fueled by festering ethnic hatred left over from Rwanda's 1994 genocide and Congo's civil wars from 1996-2002.
United Nations soldiers and Congolese soldiers retreat from the front line near the village of Kibati north of Goma in eastern Congo, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008. Thousands of refugees are fleeing eastern Congo while fighting continues between government forces and rebels of renegade Gen. Laurent Nkunda.
People stone United Nations peacekeepers in an APC as they pass through the village of Kibati north of Goma in eastern Congo, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008, as people to vent their outrage at the failure of the U.N. to halt the rebellion.
A displaced Congolese boy eats porridge just outside of Goma in eastern Congo, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008.
Thousands of displaced people gather in the village of Kibati just north of Goma in eastern Congo, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008.
People walk past a convoy of Congolese army tanks as they flee fighting, near Kibumba, 25 miles north of Goma in eastern Congo, Monday, Oct. 27, 2008. Thousands of refugees and soldiers are fleeing fighting in eastern Congo in what appears to be a major retreat of government forces being attacked by rebels of renegade Gen. Laurent Nkunda.
Congolese soldiers walk in the hills near Kibumba, 25 miles north of Goma in eastern Congo, Monday, Oct. 27, 2008. Hundreds of soldiers pulled back from the front in tanks, jeeps, trucks and on foot in what appears to be a major retreat of government forces. Soldiers honked their horns angrily as they struggled to push through throngs of refugees pouring onto the main road.
A Congolese family carries their belongings in front of an Indian United Nations camp as they flee fighting, near Kibumba, 25 miles north of Goma, in eastern Congo, Monday, Oct. 27, 2008. Thousands of civilians tossed rocks at four United Nations compounds in eastern Congo, venting outrage at what they claimed was a failure by peacekeepers to protect them from rebel forces advancing on Goma.
People carry their belongings as they flee fighting, near Kibumba, 25 miles north of Goma, in eastern Congo, Monday, Oct. 27, 2008. Civilians and soldiers pushed south from a major army base seized by the rebels and surged toward Goma.
A man carries his belongings as people flee fighting, near Kibumba, some 25 miles north of Goma, in eastern Congo, Monday, Oct. 27, 2008.
People carry their belongings as they flee fighting, near Kibumba, some 25 miles north of Goma, in eastern Congo, Monday, Oct. 27, 2008.
People carry their belongings as they flee fighting, near Kibumba, some 25 miles north of Goma in eastern Congo, Monday, Oct. 27, 2008.
Thousands of people walk on a road as they flee fighting, near Kibumba some 25 miles north of Goma in eastern Congo, Monday, Oct. 27, 2008.
An Indian United Nations soldier guards a defensive position at their base near a refugee camp as people flee fighting, Monday, Oct. 27, 2008, near Kibumba in eastern Congo.
People flee fighting, Monday, Oct. 27, 2008, near Kibumba in eastern Congo.
Thousands of people flee a refugee camp as United Nations soldiers drive past in armored vehicles, near Kibumba 25 miles north of Goma in eastern Congo, Monday, Oct. 27, 2008.
Thousands of people flee a refugee camp, near Kibumba, 25 miles north of Goma in eastern Congo, Monday, Oct. 27, 2008.
A child pulling a suitcase passes by Indian United Nations soldiers as he flees fighting, near Kibumba, 25 miles north of Goma in eastern Congo, Monday, Oct. 27, 2008.