Thousands return home to east Congo town
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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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Their homes are in ruin, many have only the clothes they&#39;re wearing, yet those who took a direct hit from hurricane Ivan returned to their neighbourhoods Saturday determined to rebuild.
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Nairobi - Thousands of Congolese refugees in Burundi are to be moved from the volatile border area to safer locations further inside the country, a United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) official said on Friday.
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Thousands of Australians started returning home on Monday after floodwaters in the wine-rich Hunter Valley eased, but residents further downstream near the coal port of Newcastle may be evacuated, officials said.
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Staring with tears in their eyes, Ivory Coast&#39;s people emerged from their homes Thursday to survey the wreckage of five days of violent upheaval and stock up on food.
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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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The main Ivorian city returns to normal after anti-French riots as UK troops deploy to help foreigners leave.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo&#39;s President Joseph Kabila visited the former rebel-held east on Saturday for the first time since taking power, a trip intended to show the country was reuniting after years of war.
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KOLWEZI, Congo  - Amid rusted hulks of abandoned plants and huge mine craters, Congo's former top copper town Kolwezi is showing signs of a reawakening.
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MOSS BLUFF -- Hundreds of people who were evacuated last week when a tower of burning natural gas began roaring from an underground storage cavern were allowed to return home this morning.
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At least 80,000 people have been displaced by fighting in north-eastern DR Congo, the UN says.
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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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The Angolan authorities sends some 25,000 people back to  DR Congo, according to a UN-backed radio station.
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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.
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About 60 ex-residents of a Japanese island return to homes they fled after a volcanic eruption in 2000.
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Thousands of villagers evacuated from a rumbling volcano in eastern Indonesia are allowed to return home.
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More than 900 residents of Fallujah returned to homes they fled before last month&#39;s military operation in the Iraqi city, on the first day of a program overseen by US and Iraqi forces, the US military said.