UN battles DR Congo dissidents
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UN helicopters fire on troops loyal to a dissident general near the eastern DR Congo city of Goma.
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The UN Security Council is to meet behind closed doors today on the crisis threatening to reawaken central Africaâs devastating six nation war in Congo, Africaâs third-largest nation.
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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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Human Rights Watch says fighters in the DR Congo are committing rape and murder and the UN is "slow" to react.
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Thousands of civilians were on Thursday fleeing clashes near the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo town of Goma between Rwandan Hutu rebels and unidentified opponents, a senior UN official told AFP.
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United Nations Security Council ambassadors have called on Rwanda not to invade neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to hunt down Hutu rebels.
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Many Congolese want the U.N. to intervene more forcefully and fight beside the Congolese Army against rebel forces.
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KINSHASA, 20 December (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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GENEVA, Aug 18  - United Nations human rights investigators on Wednesday called on Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo to identify and hold accountable those behind the massacre of at least 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees.
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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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The United Nations called for an immediate cease-fire Tuesday by rival army supporters of Congo's two presidential candidates, and three days of deadly fighting ebbed as the European Union sent reinforcements to the restive Central African nation.
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More than 100,000 Congolese have fled renewed fighting between the Democratic Republic of Congo army and rebels in the battle-torn east of the country, United Nations officials said yesterday.
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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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BUJUMBURA/UNITED NATIONS  - UN peacekeepers are scrambling to avoid new bloodshed in the volatile Great Lakes region of Africa following a massacre of Congolese refugees in western Burundi, the United Nations ...
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Aid agencies and human rights groups working in eastern DR Congo say they are being targeted by militias.
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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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The United Nations called for calm in  Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday after gun battles  surrounding the announcement of a presidential election run-off  stoked fears of a violent political showdown.