Thousands of Congo refugees flee fighting to Uganda
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At least 12,000 refugees fleeing fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have crossed over the border into southwest Uganda, a Ugandan army spokesman said on Wednesday.
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Weekend fighting between rival factions of the armed forces in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has displaced an undisclosed number of people, official sources reported on Monday.
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Thousands of refugees fled western Kenya Saturday on buses escorted by armed soldiers, streaming down roads strewn with downed power lines, burnt out vehicles and the corpses of others killed when they tried to escape an explosion of postelection ethnic violence.
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Thousands of Congolese reportedly flee to Uganda as a renegade general and DR Congo's army clash.
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NAIROBI, Kenya - Eastern Congo continues to be wracked by violence, UN officials said yesterday, and battles between rival militias are driving thousands of beleaguered villagers from their homes and complicating the government's efforts to strike a truce.
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GENEVA, Feb. 10 -- As many as 12,000 refugees from the Darfur region of Sudan fled across the border into Chad over the weekend after a series of Sudanese military airstrikes, the U.N. refugee agency said Sunday.
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Up to 12,000 refugees fled Sudan's Darfur region to neighboring Chad over the weekend following air strikes by the Sudanese military and thousands more may be coming, the U.N. refugee agency said Sunday.
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Some 360 Congolese refugees return from Burundi, despite violent protests from local villagers.
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Thousands of refugees stream from Chad into Cameroon following a rebel assault on the Chadian capital.
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JOHANNESBURG The United Nations reported Thursday that thousands of civilians had fled a battle zone in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo near the Rwandan border, heightening fears that a civil war that claimed as many as three million lives in the
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Uganda's government separates those fleeing from its neighbor by tribe in order to keep down simmering tensions
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Refugee camps in Chad housing 200,000 Sudanese fleeing fighting in Darfur are near capacity and placing a huge burden on Sudan's impoverished western neighbor, the United Nations said Friday.
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DR Congo says it is sending thousands of troops to the border with Rwanda amid growing tensions.
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NYALA, Sudan  - Refugee camps in Chad housing  200,000 Sudanese fleeing fighting in Darfur are near capacity  and placing a huge burden on Sudan's impoverished western  neighbor, the United Nations said Friday.
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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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Thousands of people who fled four days of fighting in an eastern Congo town began returning home Wednesday after clashes between government forces and renegade troops subsided, witnesses said.
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The army and U.N. peacekeepers sent reinforcements to eastern Congo on Friday after clashes involving gunmen loyal to a renegade general forced civilians to flee.