UN troops sent to end Congo clash
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The United Nations is to deploy peacekeepers to try to prevent further clashes in eastern DR Congo.
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Congolese forces used excessive force in  fierce street battles in Kinshasa last March during which  around 300 people were killed, including civilians, a United  Nations human rights investigation concluded on Friday.
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Rival army units in Democratic Republic of Congo clashed on Saturday not far from Rwanda, the United Nations said, in another sign of military and political turmoil in the east of the former Zaire.
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eastern town of Goma before the 11,000-strong UN force in Congo sent up a helicopter to have a look. &quot;We flew over the area and the situation was calm.
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The United Nations has called on all factions involved in several days of fighting in eastern Congo to agree to a cease-fire. Clashes continued Monday as the United Nations ordered the government to clarify
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BAZOURIYA, Lebanon -- There are two faces to the UN force today in Lebanon, ensuring a cease-fire that ended 33 days of war with Israel. One has a certain swagger: more than 4,800 soldiers, 14 French battle tanks, four 155 mm artillery guns, 10 Italian amphibious assault vehicles, and an array of armored personnel carriers. The other is a contingent ...
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Peacekeepers in Congo are prepared to help disarm Hutu rebels threatening Rwanda from Congolese soil to ease tensions between the two Central African neighbors, the United Nations said on Thursday.
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KINSHASA, Congo  - UN air and ground patrols have photographed freshly occupied encampments and unidentified well-equipped troops in east Congo, UN officials said Thursday, bolstering suspicions that Rwanda is making good on its threat to send troops into its larger, weaker neighbour.
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The United Nations has called on all factions involved in several days of fighting in eastern Congo to agree to a cease-fire. Clashes continued Monday as the United Nations ordered the government
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan Saturday called for an end to the violence in Ivory Coast, which has killed nine French troops and an American.
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Members of the UN Security Council Monday visited the Congo, one of the conflict-ridden countries the world body is seeking to bring peace and stability.
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Democratic Republic of Congo&#39;s  army and a renegade general have agreed to a U.N.-brokered  ceasefire to halt more than a week of clashes in the east, the  U.N. mission in Congo (MONUC) said on Thursday.
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The UN confirmed today that Rwandan troops have crossed the border into Congo in pursuit of rebel forces and was investigating reports that villages had been set ablaze.
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KINSHASA, Congo  - The United Nations said Friday foreign troops have crossed into Congo and called on outside forces to stop giving weapons and reinforcements to renegade soldiers battling army loyalists in Congo's eastern borderlands.
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Clashes broke out between Congo&#39;s army  and fighters loyal to renegade General Laurent Nkunda on  Monday, threatening to shatter a fragile three-week ceasefire  in the troubled east, U.N. and army officials said.
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THE United Nations yesterday said it was boosting its peacekeeping presence in the Democratic Republic of Congo after Rwanda threatened to attack rebels based there.
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NAIROBI, Kenya - Eastern Congo continues to be wracked by violence, UN officials said yesterday, and battles between rival militias are driving thousands of beleaguered villagers from their homes and complicating the government's efforts to strike a truce.