LUANDA/KINSHASA (Reuters) - African nations have agreed to suspend military operations for six months against Congo-based Rwandan rebels in order to give them more time to lay down their arms, regional government officials said.
The FDLR rebels, composed in part of former soldiers and Hutu militia responsible for killing some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus during Rwanda's 1994 genocide, announced in April that they would disarm. Some fighters began doing so in May.
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