Boost for DR Congo peace force
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Some 5,000 extra troops start to arrive in the DR Congo to reinforce a stretched UN peacekeeping force.
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Northern Ireland's largest loyalist paramilitary organisation, the Ulster Defence Association is to outline its plans to boost its peace process credentials.
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Burundi deployed a second contingent of 92 peacekeepers to the Somali capital on Monday, to bolster an African Union force struggling to stem violence in the turbulent Horn of Africa nation.
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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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Brazil will send additional peacekeepers to help restore order in Haiti and boost the 4,000- force to 5,500, a top government official said at a summit of Latin American leaders.
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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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The African Union agreed Wednesday to boost the number of peacekeepers in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region and send a contingent of civilian police to monitor efforts to end violence that has driven more than 1.5 million people from their homes.
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Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila has arrived in the eastern city of Kisangani - his first visit to former rebel-held territories since the end of a devastating four-year war.
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Rebels and the DR Congo government sign a peace agreement aimed at ending years of conflict in the east.
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A peace deal for eastern DR Congo is due to be signed shortly, after rebels and the government reach agreement.
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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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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- The African Union agreed yesterday to boost the number of peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region and send a contingent of civilian police to monitor efforts to end violence that has driven more than 1.5 million people from their homes.
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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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A peace deal for eastern DR Congo may be signed on Tuesday, as agreement is reached between rebels and the government.
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The African Union on Wednesday agreed to beef up its peacekeeping force in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region and send hundreds of civilian police officers in an effort
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The recent escalation in fighting between warring factions in eastern Congo appears to be abating as a result of the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers and strong political messages from the international community, a senior U.N. official said.
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DR Congo's rebel leader Laurent Nkunda says he is ready for a political solution to the conflict in the east.