UN force in Congo gets a boost
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Britain, France and the US have agreed to a 5,900 increase in the strength of the UN force in the Democratic Republic of Congo, fewer than half the reinforcements requested by the secretary general, Kofi Annan.
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The U.N. Security Council  endorsed 40 pages of plans on Friday for a Darfur peacekeeping  force of more than 23,000 troops and police to protect  civilians and use force to deter violence.
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NEW YORK: Kofi Annan&#39;s plan to more than double the international peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo has received a frosty reception at the UN Security Council.
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The African Union agreed Wednesday to boost the number of peacekeepers in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region and send a contingent of civilian police to monitor efforts to end violence that has driven more than 1.5 million people from their homes.
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Security is stepped up in the border town of Bukavu after Rwanda and Burundi said they could send troops into Democratic Republic of Congo.
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The UN mission in DR Congo has proof foreign troops entered the country after Rwanda threatened to do so.
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The United Nations said it had established "almost with certainty" that Rwandan soldiers had entered neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over the past two weeks.
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Support is growing at the UN for a joint bid by four influential countries to increase the number of members of the Security Council.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan Thursday hailed the African Union&#39;s decision to send more troops and police to the Western Sudan.
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The U.N. Security Council voted  unanimously on Friday to send another 5,900 peacekeepers to the  Congo, less than half of what U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan  had requested.
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The UN mission in Congo says it has spotted 100 troops, thought to be Rwandan, in the vast Central African country but Kigali has declined to confirm or deny whether its soldiers had crossed the border.
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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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Villagers crowd around a new U.N. base to stare at a white helicopter lifting off over eastern Congo's mountainous terrain, where U.N. troops sent to secure peace are increasingly playing the role of infantrymen in Central Africa's latest fighting.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia  - The African Union's Peace and Security Council voted Wednesday to boost the number of peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region and send a contingent of civilian police to monitor efforts to end violence that has driven more than 1.5 million people from their homes.
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The United Nations said Friday that foreign troops have crossed into Congo and called on outside forces to stop giving weapons and reinforcements to renegade soldiers battling army loyalists in Congo's eastern borderlands.
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UN air and ground patrols have photographed freshly made encampments and unidentified well-equipped troops in east Congo, UN officials said Thursday, bolstering
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KINSHASA, Congo  - The United Nations said Friday foreign troops have crossed into Congo and called on outside forces to stop giving weapons and reinforcements to renegade soldiers battling army loyalists in Congo's eastern borderlands.