Soldiers, UN retreat as rebels advance in Congo

KILIMANYOKA, Congo (AP) - Rebels advanced toward Congo's eastern provincial capital of 600,000 people Tuesday, sending tens of thousands of terrified civilians into a makeshift shelter as Congolese troops and U.N. tanks retreated.
The sudden influx tripled the size of the camp in Kibati in a matter of hours, said Ron Redmond, a spokesman for the U.N. refugee agency.
"It's chaos up there," Redmond told The Associated Press. "These crowds of people coming down from the north have already started turning up there."
A hundred refugees a day, mostly women and children, also were fleeing across the border into Uganda, that country's Red Cross said.More