Congo rebels seize gorilla park
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Rebels in the DR Congo take control of large parts of Virunga National Park, home to rare mountain gorillas.
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Chadian troops are sent to intercept rebels who are advancing on the capital after seizing a key town.
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Less violence and more generous donations appear to be helping efforts to save the silverback gorillas of the Democratic Republic of Congo.  Thanks to a ceasefire engineered late last month between the government and the forces of dissident Army Gen.
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Renegade soldiers have gained ground in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, taking control of two more villages during clashes with government troops, United Nations officials said on Monday.
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Animal stolen from zoo found in raid on gang hideout, but two Arabic-speaking parrots still missing.
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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.
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Congo President Joseph Kabila visited northeastern territory formerly held by rebels Saturday for the first time since taking power in 2001, his spokesman said, while the army claimed to have retaken a village near Zambia and killed at least 20 militiamen.
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KAMPALA -- Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo agreed yesterday to immediately disarm rebel groups who threaten peace and security in Africa's Great Lakes region. The agreement was signed following US-sponsored talks in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, between delegations led by Ugandan Defense Minister Amama Mbabazi, Rwanda's Foreign Minister Charles Murigande, and his Congolese counterpart, Raymond Ramazani Baya. ...
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Government troops in Central African Republic, backed by French forces, have launched an offensive to retake a northeast town from rebels, and have recaptured its airport, a French military spokesman said on Tuesday.
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KINSHASA, Congo  - Militiamen armed with guns and machetes killed 16 people and kidnapped at least 34 girls in attacks this week on a remote area of eastern Congo, a UN spokesman said Saturday.
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Renewed fighting Saturday inside a national park in Congo that is home to endangered mountain gorillas forced rangers to flee for the second time in less than a week, conservationists said.
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Congo-based Rwandan rebels, under threat of imminent attack by Rwanda, repeated an allegation Tuesday that Rwandan troops had crossed the border in recent days to seize the vast country&#39;s mineral-rich east.
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KAMPALA, Uganda  - Ugandan helicopter gunships and ground troops attacked a rebel hideout in southern Sudan, killing at least 25 insurgents and capturing seven others, an army spokesman said Sunday.
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VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, Congo -- They heard the gunshots around 3 p.m., at least two pops that echoed across the green mountains of this vast park tangled up in vines, fallen trees and years of war.
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Renegade Congolese General Laurent  Nkunda said on Friday the Congolese army had attacked his  position, breaking a fragile ceasefire negotiated by United  Nations mediators in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Renegade soldiers have advanced in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, taking control of two more villages during clashes with government troops, United Nations officials said on Monday.
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KANYABAYONGA, Congo  - Rebel soldiers confronting  army loyalists near this deserted Congolese farming town  declared victory on Friday after clashes that stirred fears of  fresh violence in turbulent central Africa.