U.N.-backed operations displace thousands in Congo
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As government soldiers dozed in  the abandoned market stalls and excited U.N. peacekeepers  celebrated reaching the town, several days late, a handful of  civilians squatted in a mud hut.
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Thousands of civilians have fled their homes after clashes in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations' humanitarian arm said on Friday.
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Days of clashes between the army and Rwandan and Congolese militias in eastern Congo have killed at least 23 combatants and forced thousands to flee, the army and U.N. officials said Tuesday.
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GOMA, Congo -- UN observers encountered what they believed to be about 100 Rwandan troops in eastern Congo, a UN official said yesterday, marking the first reported UN sightings since Rwanda threatened to send in its forces against Rwanda Hutu rebels sheltering here.
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The United Nations said Friday its investigators have discovered three mass graves at a northeast Congo military camp containing the bodies of 30 people, including women and children, who were allegedly killed by soldiers. The dead were found at a military camp in eastern Ituri province after witnesses accused troops of killing dozens of people two months ago, U.N. spokesman Kemal Saiki said.
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BUKAVU, Congo  - The United Nations said it will send troops to separate warring Congo army factions, warning the UN force will repulse any attempt to cross the new buffer zone.
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U.N. peacekeepers deployed an additional brigade in eastern Congo amid reports that Rwanda was threatening to Rwandan rebels based in its huge neighbor, U.N. officials said Wednesday.
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United Nations peacekeepers in Congo sexually exploited women and girls, some as young as 13, a U.N. watchdog office said Friday in a new confirmation that efforts to curb abuses by U.N. troops are not working.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE: UN peacekeepers beefed up security today in the Haitian city of Gonaives where more than 1000 people died in floods, after desperate survivors fought each other to get at emergency food supplies.
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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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War, disease and malnutrition are  killing 45,000 Congolese every month in a conflict-driven  humanitarian crisis that has claimed 5.4 million victims in  nearly a decade, a survey released on Tuesday said.
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Ten thousand Congolese refugees have fled to neighboring Uganda to escape growing clashes in eastern Congo between the army and renegade troops, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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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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War, disease and malnutrition are killing 45,000 Congolese every month in a conflict-driven humanitarian crisis that has claimed 5.4 million victims in nearly a decade, a survey released on Tuesday said.
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 27 -- Burma's military rulers have forced the International Committee of the Red Cross to shut down its five rural field offices, crippling the agency's ability to distribute aid to thousands of needy Burmese civilians, according to U.N. and Red Cross officials.
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U.N. peacekeepers in Congo used a  helicopter gunship on Monday to block an advance against the  eastern city of Goma by forces loyal to a renegade general, a  U.N. officer said.