Rwanda details troop withdrawal plans

Rwanda has given more details of plans to withdraw its troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo next week.

A Foreign Ministry statement issued in Kigali said Rwanda would unilaterally pull all its troops back two hundred kilometres from their current positions, starting at midnight local time 22G on February the 28th.

It said the operation would begin in Petwo, in south-east Congo.

A senior Rwandan Foreign Ministry official Seth Kamanzi said the move was a goodwill gesture which he hoped the Congo government would imitate.

Uganda said yesterday it would withdraw a-thousand of its forces from Congo.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service