Thousands flee DR Congo unrest
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Aid agencies try to help thousands of people displaced by unrest in the east of DR Congo.
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Thousands of civilians have fled their homes after clashes in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said on Friday, although it was unclear who was behind the violence.
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Flames and smoke rose from a camp of militiamen attached to a Congolese presidential candidate Thursday, and explosions could be heard behind the camp's walls. People, some bleeding, fled from the camp of the militia of Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former rebel leader who is one of four vice presidents in Congo's transitional government.
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KINSHASA, 20 Dec 2004 (IRIN) - With fresh battle fronts opening up and tens of thousands of civilians fleeing their homes, there has been mounting concern among international bodies that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is heading for a major war.
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GOMA, Congo  - Former rebels in the Democratic  Republic of Congo pulled out of a power-sharing government on  Monday, dealing a major blow to the peace process in a country  emerging from civil war.
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Tens of thousands of people have fled recent fighting in southern Afghanistan, the UN refugee agency says.
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Mortar fire forced scores of Somalis to flee their homes in escalating violence in the capital Mogadishu on Friday, doctors and residents said.
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Thousands of people who fled four days of fighting in an eastern Congo town began returning home Wednesday after clashes between government forces and renegade troops subsided, witnesses said.
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Thousands of Congolese reportedly flee to Uganda as a renegade general and DR Congo's army clash.
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ABIDJAN : An exodus from Ivory Coast began as France sent planes to evacuate nationals while thousands of Ivorians fled across the borders to escape violence that has claimed a reported 145 lives.
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United Nations mediators  announced a ceasefire on Thursday between Democratic Republic  of Congo&#39;s army and the forces of a renegade general whose  advance towards an eastern town forced thousands of refugees to  flee.
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At least 12,000 refugees fleeing  fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have  crossed over the border into southwest Uganda, a Ugandan army  spokesman said on Wednesday.
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Tens of thousands of East Timorese fled their burning capital or sought refuge in churches, embassies and the airport on Sunday as gangs terrorized neighborhoods virtually at will. The United Nations evacuated hundreds of employees.
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France evacuated hundreds more citizens  fleeing violence in Ivory Coast on Thursday as opposition  leaders from its former colony gathered in South Africa for  talks aimed at rebuilding peace.
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French citizens queued at Ivory Coast's main airport on Wednesday to flee their former West African colony as violent anti-French protesters massed for a fifth day in support of President Laurent Gbagbo.
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Some 180,000 civilians have fled the fighting between renegade soldiers and army loyalists in eastern Congo in recent days, a human rights group said Tuesday, warning the exodus could be the start of a humanitarian disaster.
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Tens of thousands of Kikuyus, the tribe of Kenyaâs president, have fled because of ethnic violence.