Kinshasa (Fides Service) - In Democratic Congo fighting continues despite a recent peace agreement. A mixed military commission made up of representatives from Angola, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia, says the Mai Mai militia threaten to destabilise the Eastern region. The Mai Mai pro-government troops are fighting various guerrilla groups allied with the armies of Rwanda and Uganda, who invaded this part of Congo in 1998. Fides spoke to local sources on the phone that said: "Continued fighting is aggravating an already precarious situation. After four years of war the people can take no more. We thought peace had come but now we are on the brink of a humanitarian disaster and the world media is indifferent. According to the UN World Food Programme 1.3 million people face starvation." At the root of the conflict, the natural resources of the country, coltan, cobalt, diamonds uranium and precious timber. On October 16 the UN Security Council issued a report denouncing trafficking of these resources. A local sources comments: This is good, but we want to see the next move. Sanctions must be imposed on the companies which back the war in this tormented nation". It is time to take concrete steps for Congo, as it was said in an appeal issued by Missionaries published by Fides this week. We ask "Where do we draw the line between indifference and complicity? (Fides Service 26/10/2002)