U.N. Massacre Probe Will Go Forward

President Laurent Kabila and America’s U.N. ambassador announced an agreement that clears the way for a U.N. investigation into alleged massacres by Kabila’s army. U.N. Ambassador Bill Richardson said he hoped the probe can begin early next month, ending an impasse that threatened to strain relations between the world body and Kabila’s government. Both sides appeared to have made concessions: Kabila dropping his insistence that the team focus only on eastern Congo, and the United Nations publicly promising that the team will stay out of Congo’s internal politics.