Congo angers easterners with right-hand drive ban
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Democratic Republic of Congo is banning right-hand drive cars in an effort to improve dire road safety, angering drivers in the vast country&#39;s south and east where most vehicles have the steering wheel on the right.
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Congolese police fired warning shots  on Tuesday to disperse rioting opposition protesters in  Kinshasa who tore down election posters and demanded the  postponement of historic polls set for Sunday.
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Police fire teargas in the Democratic Republic of Congo to disperse protesters angered by moves to delay elections.
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GOMA, Congo -- At least 100,000 people have been displaced in the volatile eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo since January, when the government and a powerful renegade general agreed to combine troops in an attempt to pacify the area, says a UN Security Council report released this past weekend.
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Rival factions of Congo&#39;s army battled in the eastern region of the vast country Saturday, killing several people, a top military official said.
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The massacre of over 160 Congolese Banyamulenge Tutsis in Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi has once again brought to the fore the ethnic problem in Africa&#39;s Great Lakes Region.
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U.N. peacekeepers in Congo used a helicopter gunship on Monday to block an advance against the eastern city of Goma by forces loyal to a renegade general, a U.N. officer said.
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Congo&#39;s government spokesman denied Tuesday that rival army factions were fighting each other in the east of the country and insisted the clashes were between Congolese and Rwandan forces.
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Hard-line supporters of Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo blocked major routes in the country's largest city Wednesday to protest an identification program that they say rebels could exploit to skew upcoming presidential elections.
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KINSHASA, Friday - The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Thursday began deploying troops to the east of the country amid reports that Rwandan forces were operating in the area and thousands of civilians were fleeing clashes.
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KAMPALA, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- The Ugandan government has condemned the recent massacre of some 160 Congolese refugees in Gatumba camp in Burundi.
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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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Congolese government forces clashed  with rebels at a town near the border with Rwanda for a third  day Wednesday as the two countries traded heated accusations  over who was involved in the fighting.
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Burundi will urge regional  leaders at a summit on Wednesday to impose sanctions against  the rebel Hutu Forces for National Liberation (FNL), blamed for  the slaughter of more than 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees in  Burundi.
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RUSAMAMBO, Congo  - Fia Kambale looked out across  a deep green valley, pointing to one of the many hills that  make up the lush, undulating landscape of eastern Congo, where  untold riches and dangers lie.
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Police in Burundi&#39;s capital Bujumbura fired tear gas at crowds today, protesting against the massacre of at least 160 Congolese Tutsis at a UN refugee camp in the west of the country.
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for the front line in eastern Congo to stop renegade soldiers advancing further after more than a week of fighting. between the towns of Kanyabayonga and Lubero to keep rebels and loyal troops apart.