Congolese await 'historic' deal
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A peace deal for eastern DR Congo is to be signed on Tuesday, as rebels and the government reach agreement.
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Sudan's government and main rebel group are ready to clinch a final deal to end more than 20 years of war within days of talks resuming next week, spokesman for both sides said, a day before the UN Security Council opens a rare meeting in Nairobi on the country's peace process.
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KINSHASA, Congo -- Congo intends to send up to 10,000 reinforcements toward its eastern border with Rwanda, a presidential spokesman said yesterday, after credible reports that thousands of Rwandan troops crossed into its territory, raising fears of reigniting a devastating five-year regional war.
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The deal would end an insurgency that has  threatened to unravel the countryâs new elected government.
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Talks are raising hopes that a central African conflict involving the Lord's Resistance Army is winding down.
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Laurent Gbagbo, the Ivory Coast president, is committed to implementing peace deals struck with rebels who hold the north of the world&#39;s top cocoa grower, President Thabo Mbeki said today.
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Joseph Kabila will be sworn in on Wednesday as Congo's first freely elected president in more than four decades, but he faces a mammoth task to satisfy popular expectations after years of war, dictatorship and chaos.
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Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila will hold talks with his counterpart Thabo Mbeki during a state visit to South Africa this week, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.
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Hopes are high that the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and armed groups can end a decade of fighting that a new report says has claimed the lives of more than 5 million people.
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Nepal's multi-party government and Maoist rebels said they were set to sign a landmark peace accord on Tuesday that would declare a formal end to a decade-old civil war which has killed thousands.
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NAIROBI -- Sudan's government and southern rebels are expected to agree to the final chapters of a peace deal today, paving the way for a comprehensive agreement next month to end Africa's longest-running civil war, delegates said.
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Rival groups in Ivory Coast have agreed to a peace plan put forward by the South African President Thabo Mbeki. Government, Opposition and rebel leaders in Ivory Coast have endorsed the deal.
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Joseph Kabila is to be inaugurated in DR Congo, following one of Africa's most significant elections for years.
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KINSHASA, Congo, Dec. 6 -- After decades of dictatorship and wars, Congo on Wednesday swore in its first freely elected president since 1960, installing Joseph Kabila, the son of a rebel leader, who promised a new era of order and better days ahead.
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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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French President Jacques Chirac, left, shakes hands with Congolese counterpart Denis Sassou Nguesso before a dinner, Wednesday Feb.Comment
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Central African Republic President Francois Bozize Friday said his country would soon open its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, closed since 2002 due to civil war there.