Dr Congo closes cholera infected camp

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have closed a military camp where more than three-hundred young former rebel fighters have died in a cholera outbreak.

Relief workers and civilian authorities who reached the Kapalata barracks, which housed an estimated three thousand Mai Mai fighters, were said to have been appalled by the sqaulid conditions in which the young men were living.

The young Mai Mai fighters had handed themselves over to the authorities last October as potential recruits for the national army.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service