Election violence kills 100 in Congo
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Days of clashes between security forces and demonstrators claiming electoral fraud have left nearly 100 people dead in several southwestern Congo towns, humanitarian and rights groups said Friday.
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Walls plastered with campaign posters from Congo's historic elections are peppered with bullet holes. Tank fire has smashed buildings just down bloodstained streets from voting centers in the war-battered capital.
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The executions of four young men in a slum stronghold of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide brought to at least 79 the number killed in a month of violence in Haiti&#39;s capital.
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At least 85 killed as violence appears to spiral beyond deadlocked political leaders' control.
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Fighters loyal to a dissident general attacked army positions in eastern Congo with heavy weapons on Saturday, killing two soldiers and sending thousands of people fleeing into the bush, U.N. officials said.
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The U.N. mission in Congo said on  Wednesday it had spotted 100 soldiers, thought to be Rwandan,  in the east of the vast Central African country but Kigali  declined to say whether its troops had crossed the border.
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NAROK, Kenya  - One man was killed in ethnic violence on Friday when Kenyan opposition protests against a disputed election spread to an area near the famed Maasai Mara game reserve in the south of the country.
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Congolese forces used excessive force in  fierce street battles in Kinshasa last March during which  around 300 people were killed, including civilians, a United  Nations human rights investigation concluded on Friday.
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GOMA, Congo, July 14 -- At least 100,000 people have been displaced in the volatile eastern region of Congo since January, when the government and a powerful renegade general agreed to combine their troops in an attempt to pacify the area, according to a U.N. Security Council report released...
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More than 100 journalists and media employees have been killed so far this year, according to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).
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Police in Congo&#039;s capital fired tear gas Tuesday to break up stone-throwing demonstrators who were alleging electoral irregularities ahead of the country&#039;s first presidential vote in four decades.
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Europe's top envoy for central Africa said there are still too many &quot;armed men&quot; in Congolese capital Kinshasa 10 days after rival political factions clashed in the city center, leaving 23 dead.
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Rival factions in Congo's postwar army battled in the eastern region of the vast nation Saturday, killing several people, a top military official said.
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Renegade soldiers are continuing to battle troops loyal to the Congolese government in fighting that has displaced at least 100,000 people in eastern Congo over the last week, UN officials said.
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More than 100 Iraqis  are killed or wounded by a mortar attack on a National Guard HQ, Iraqi  officials say.
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At least 13 people were killed in Kenya on Friday when police opened fire in a Nairobi slum and ethnic groups clashed during protests against the disputed re-election of President Mwai Kibaki.
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At least 50 killed, 100 injured in car bombings; attacks come as Pakistanis prepare for elections.