Peace summit opens in violence-torn eastern Congo
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A peace summit aimed at ending fighting in Congo's blood-steeped eastern provinces of North and South Kivu opened on Sunday without the presence of President Joseph Kabila and rebel leader General Laurent Nkunda.
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DR Congo President Joseph Kabila makes his first trip to the volatile east of the country to a rapturous welcome.
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DR Congo President Kabila makes his first trip to the volatile east of the country to a rapturous welcome.
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In the wake of escalating deadly violence in the Gaza Strip, the UN Security Council met Monday at an open debate to hear many speakers urge an end to conflict there.
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Three of Africa's big crises -- strife in Ivory Coast, fighting in Congo and the humanitarian emergency in Sudan's Darfur -- provide a daunting agenda for an African Union summit that began Monday in Gabon.
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One of Congo's fiercest warlords sent a delegation on Sunday to meet with members of the government on the first day of peace talks in the provincial outpost of Goma.
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Regional military chiefs meet in Kigali to plan joint operations against militia groups in eastern DR Congo.
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Foreign ministers from Africa&#39;s Great Lakes nations gathered Sunday to discuss regional insecurity following weeks of fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo&#39;s eastern region.
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Aid agencies try to help thousands of people displaced by unrest in the east of DR Congo.
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African Union heads of state meet to discuss the conflicts in Ivory Coast and Sudan's Darfur region.
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Fighting between rival army factions has ended days of relative calm in eastern Congo where the United Nations say at least 100,000 displaced people have still not returned home.
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Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki flew to Ethiopia on Thursday for an African summit likely to be dominated by the violence gripping his country.
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Congo's government and warring rebel and militia factions will sign a deal on Tuesday to end fighting in the country's conflict-torn east, government officials and diplomats said on 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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A landmark UN-backed two-day summit aimed at bringing lasting peace and stability to the volatile Great Lakes region of Africa opened on Friday in the Tanzanian commercial capital Dar es Salaam.
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Rebels battled pro-government militia fighters in eastern Congo on Monday, the first fighting in the volatile region since warring parties signed a peace deal last week.
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For the first time since Kenya exploded into election-related violence that killed more than 400 people, the president and the top opposition leader have agreed to meet.