Thousands Still in Hiding in DRC

(06 Dec 08 - RV) In the Democratic Republic of Congo officials peace talks between the government and rebels will take place Monday in Nairobi Kenya, to resolve a recent offensive that has brought the country's eastern region back to the brink of all-out war.

Authorities are now willing to meet envoys of rebel leader Laurent Nkunda a Tutsi, who says he is trying to drive from about 1,500 Hutu militiamen from north Kivu province.

Many of the Hutus are believed to be Rwandan exiles who fled to Congo after Rwanda's 1994 genocide, in which more than 500,000 people, most of them Tutsis, were slaughtered.

The head of Oxfam in the Congo, Juliet Prodham, spoke to us from Goma about the situation there and what world leaders can and should do to help.