Congo border fighting &#39;abating&#39;
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A senior UN official has said the recent upsurge in violence in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo appears to be abating.
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Congo will send up to 10,000 soldiers to its eastern province of North Kivu to prevent rebels and Rwandan forces from launching cross border attacks, President Joseph Kabila's spokesman said Monday.
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Burundi and Rwanda say they may move in if Congo doesn&#39;t root out extremist militias. BUJUMBURA -- Burundi and Rwanda warned yesterday they might send troops into neighbouring Congo if that country fails to disarm militias responsible for massacring more ...
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Weekend fighting between rival factions of the armed forces in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has displaced an undisclosed number of people, official sources reported on Monday.
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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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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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Former Congolese rebels blocked Kinshasa&#39;s troops reinforcement to the border with Rwanda, according to reports on Monday. According to senior military commanders in eastern
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After two years of fragile peace, one of Africa's most volatile regions -- the border area of Rwanda and Congo -- has been pushed back to the brink of war with Rwandan soldiers reportedly staging raids in eastern Congo and Congolese militias clashing separately with each other.
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Security is stepped up in the border town of Bukavu after Rwanda and Burundi said they could send troops into Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Warring rebels and militias in  eastern Democratic Republic of Congo signed a cease-fire deal  on Wednesday aimed at ending conflict at the heart of one of  the world's most deadly humanitarian catastrophes.
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The fighting between government troops and Congolese rebels has raised fears of a renewal of the warfare that broke out in August 1998.
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Congolese authorities announced Monday they would hold a peace conference by month's end in the troubled eastern province, after suffering serious setbacks in recent clashes with rebels in Nord-Kivu.
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8 December 2004 - Following helicopter and foot patrols in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the United Nations mission in the country has found evidence of hostilities by &quot;an armed, organized but unknown military presence,&quot; but has not
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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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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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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.
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Congo's army said on Monday it had launched strikes against renegade fighters in the volatile eastern border region with Rwanda, killing at least 28 insurgents during clashes lasting several hours.