UN creating buffer zone in east Congo
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The United Nations said yesterday it will send peacekeepers to separate warring Congo army factions, warning that the UN troops will repulse any attempt to cross the new buffer zone.
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BUKAVU, Congo  - About 100,000 civilians in eastern Congo have fled a week of fighting between renegade soldiers and army loyalists, hiding deep into the forest where humanitarian workers cannot reach them, United Nations officials said Sunday.
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The recent escalation in fighting between warring factions in eastern Congo appears to be abating as a result of the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers and strong political messages from the international community, a senior U.N. official said.
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The United Nations called on Monday for an immediate cease-fire in eastern Congo as fighting between rival army factions flared for a third day.
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Congo will send up to 10,000 soldiers  to its eastern province of North Kivu to prevent rebels and  Rwandan forces from launching cross border attacks, President  Joseph Kabila's spokesman said Monday.
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GOMA, Congo  - Armed groups in eastern Congo are recruiting fighters in camps for those displaced by violence, the U.N. refugee chief said on Sunday, as diplomats tried to revive a peace plan that has failed to halt fighting.
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BUKAVU, Congo  - United Nations mediators announced a ceasefire on Thursday between Democratic Republic of Congo'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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GOMA, Congo  - 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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Kanyabayongo - Fighting between the regular army of the Democratic Republic of Congo and armed men resumed early on Wednesday near the eastern town of Kanyabayonga, an AFP journalist reported, while UN officials in the capital Kinshasa reported an
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The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has begun his first visit to the volatile east of the country since coming to power in 2001.
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GOMA, Congo  - United Nations peacekeepers in  helicopters and armored troop carriers headed for the frontline  in eastern Congo on Tuesday to stop renegade soldiers advancing  further after more than a week of fighting.
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NAIROBI, Sept. 8 -- The prevalence and intensity of sexual violence against women in eastern Congo are "almost unimaginable," the top U.N. humanitarian official said Sunday after visiting the country's most fragile region, where militias groups have preyed on the civilian population for years.
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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 Wednesday, marking the first UN sighting since Rwanda threatened to send in its forces against Rwanda Hutu rebels sheltering there.
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GOMA, Congo -- At least 100,000 people have been displaced in the volatile eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo since January, when the government and a powerful renegade general agreed to combine troops in an attempt to pacify the area, says a UN Security Council report released this past weekend.
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eastern town of Goma before the 11,000-strong UN force in Congo sent up a helicopter to have a look. &quot;We flew over the area and the situation was calm.
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Following last week&#39;s massacre of at least 160 Congolese Tutsis at a refugee camp near Burundi&#39;s border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Burundian government is speeding up efforts to help the United Nations set up more secure camps in the ...
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Following last week&#39;s massacre of at least 160 Congolese Tutsis at a refugee camp near Burundi&#39;s border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Burundian government is speeding up efforts to help the United Nations set up more secure camps in the