Congo rebels seize gorilla park
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Rebels in the DR Congo take control of large parts of Virunga National Park, home to rare mountain gorillas.
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Rwanda, Uganda and DR Congo are launching a project to improve security for the great apes.
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KINSHASA, Congo  - Militiamen armed with guns and machetes killed 16 people and kidnapped at least 34 girls in attacks this week on a remote area of eastern Congo, a UN spokesman said Saturday.
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Animal stolen from zoo found in raid on gang hideout, but two Arabic-speaking parrots still missing.
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Army reinforcements sent to bolster the Democratic Republic of Congo's fragile border region with Rwanda have clashed with former rebel units within the army, a local military commander said on Sunday.
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Government soldiers backed by artillery and airpower seized a key rebel enclave in the east Monday, the military said, claiming the first significant territorial change since a cease-fire in the island nation's civil war four years ago.
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Park rangers fleeing renewed conflict in eastern Congo have abandoned an endangered gorilla reserve.
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Chadian troops are sent to intercept rebels who are advancing on the capital after seizing a key town.
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Park rangers in Virunga National Park, home to some of the world's last mountain gorillas, are on the front lines of Congo's war. More than 120 rangers have been killed in this lush sanctuary over the last decade.
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Confidential UN documents seen by the BBC say Rwanda maintains military control over parts of DR Congo.
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A female gorilla and its infant, part of a group attacked by gunmen, are dead, say conservationists in DR Congo.
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Soldiers of the Uganda People&#39;s Defense Forces (UPDF) have raided rebel Lord&#39;s Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony&#39;s hideouts at Pakanyar in southern Sudan, killing 25 rebels and capturing seven others.
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At least six soldiers are captured by Tuareg rebels in Niger's uranium-rich  northern Agadez region.
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Congolese forces have retaken a southeastern town from a mysterious armed group and killed 20 of the rebels, a government spokesman said on Saturday.
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Senior Congolese officials charged Tuesday that Rwandan President Paul Kagame had made good on his threat to invade, claiming Rwandan troops had crossed into eastern Congo and were clashing with militias there.
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KANYABAYONGA, Congo  - Rebel soldiers confronting  army loyalists near this deserted Congolese farming town  declared victory on Friday after clashes that stirred fears of  fresh violence in turbulent central Africa.
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Armed gangs are seizing children for ransom in the Central African Republic, Amnesty International says.