Leaders to Discuss Central Africa Crisis

KINSHASA, Congo, June 24 -- President Joseph Kabila of Congo and the leader of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, will hold talks in Nigeria on Friday to try to defuse a crisis that has sparked fears of a new war in Central Africa's troubled Great Lakes region. Aid workers said recent fighting in eastern Congo had displaced about 85,000 people.

Separately, Kagame officially launched a traditional court system to expedite cases against suspects in the country's 1994 genocide. The village courts have been running on a pilot basis since 2001 to try some of the 100,000 defendants charged in the slaughter of Tutsis and moderate Hutus by Hutu extremists.