Congo Leader Tours Former Rebel Territory
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Congo President Joseph Kabila visited northeastern territory formerly held by rebels Saturday for the first time since taking power in 2001, his spokesman said, while the army claimed to have retaken a village near Zambia and killed at least 20 militiamen.
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KINSHASA, Congo, Nov. 30 -- A senior Congolese official said Tuesday that troops from neighboring Rwanda had crossed into eastern Congo, and UN officials said they were investigating reports of Rwandan forces
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GOMA, DR Congo  - President Paul Kagame confirmed that Rwandan troops will launch an operation in pursuit of Rwandan Hutu rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as UN troops spotted about 100 soldiers in the explosive region.
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Rwanda's president on Tuesday warned that his forces will deal with rebels based in Congo and suggested they may already be doing so, a day after reports emerged that Rwandan troops had crossed in neighboring Congo.
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Rwanda can and will strike Rwandan rebels in Congo if little continues to be done to disarm them, but Kigali is not spoiling for a fight, President Paul Kagame said on Saturday after meeting his Congolese counterpart.
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has taken some steps toward implementing peace agreements struck earlier with rebels who hold the northern part of the country, a spokesman for South African President Thabo Mbeki said
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast - President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday arrived in the central Ivory Coast rebel stronghold of Bouake, where he received a rousing welcome as a potential peacemaker in the divided country.
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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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DR Congo President Kabila makes his first trip to the volatile east of the country to a rapturous welcome.
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Congolese President Joseph Kabila meets run-off rival, Jean-Pierre Bemba, for the first time since clashes in the capital.
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KINSHASA, 30 November (IRIN) - With the possibility growing daily of Rwandan troop incursions into eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congolese President Joseph Kabila announced on Monday he would send some 10,000 more troops to the area.
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A Congolese militia leader suspected of mass murder, rape and sexual enslavement appeared Monday at the International Criminal Court for the first time and claimed he had been illegally detained in Congo since 2005.
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President Thabo Mbeki took his peace mission to Ivory Coast&#39;s rebel-held stronghold of Bouake today, where he was greeted by hundreds of people demanding Laurent Gbagbo, the president, quit.
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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, implicated by many in the international community in Darfur's genocide, visited the troubled region Saturday for the first time in the four-year conflict there.
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KISANGANI, DR Congo  - The Democratic Republic of Congo, which is emerging from five years of bloody warfare, &quot;will allow no further aggression,&quot; warned President Joseph Kabila on his first visit to the restive east of this vast central African
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KHARTOUM, Sudan, July 21 -- Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, implicated by many governments and human rights organizations in Darfur's violence, visited the troubled region Saturday for the first time since the start of the four-year conflict there.
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KINSHASA, Congo  - President Joseph Kabila accused Rwanda on Friday of trying to create a confrontation with Congo in an effort to disrupt Congolese efforts to secure the country and move toward 2005 elections.