Clashes leave Congo court on fire
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DR Congo's Supreme Court is on fire following protests over alleged fraud in the presidential run-off.
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U.N. peacekeepers in Congo on Monday blocked an advance against an eastern city by soldiers loyal to a renegade general as the Supreme Court prepared to deliver its verdict on a contested presidential election result.
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Gunmen opened fire on an election rally and killed several people in Congo's volatile east, the United Nations reported Wednesday, the latest outburst of violence as the nation prepares for its first free legislative and presidential balloting in 46 years.
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RIVAL factions in Congoâs postwar army fought gun battles on the vast nationâs eastern border with Rwanda yesterday, killing several people, a top military official said.
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A row worsens over critical Belgian comments about the DR Congo's slow transition to democracy.
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Congo's army said on Monday it had launched strikes against renegade fighters in the volatile eastern border region with Rwanda, killing at least 28 insurgents during clashes lasting several hours.
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A major confrontation between the Congolese Army and a renegade Tutsi general is plunging the country back toward war.
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Walls plastered with campaign posters from Congo's historic elections are peppered with bullet holes. Tank fire has smashed buildings just down bloodstained streets from voting centers in the war-battered capital.
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Rival army units in Democratic Republic of Congo clashed on Saturday not far from Rwanda, the United Nations said, another sign of the military and political turmoil in the east of the former Zaire.
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Congo's government spokesman denied Tuesday that rival army factions were fighting each other in the east of the country and insisted the clashes were between Congolese and Rwandan forces.
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KINSHASA, Congo  - U.N. forces and fighters of a tribal militia traded fire Sunday in Congo's lawless northeast Ituri province, wounding at least two U.N. troops, a U.N. spokesman said.
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Clashes worsen between the army and rebels in eastern DR Congo, as the UN relief chief fears for civilians.
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Army reinforcements sent to bolster the Democratic Republic of Congo's fragile border region with Rwanda have clashed with former rebel units within the army, a local military commander said on Sunday.
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The United Nations called for an immediate cease-fire Tuesday by rival army supporters of Congo's two presidential candidates, and three days of deadly fighting ebbed as the European Union sent reinforcements to the restive Central African nation.
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Thousands of civilians were on Thursday fleeing clashes near the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo town of Goma between Rwandan Hutu rebels and unidentified opponents, a senior UN official told AFP.
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Congolese forces used excessive force in fierce street battles in Kinshasa last March during which around 300 people were killed, including civilians, a United Nations human rights investigation concluded on Friday.
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Army reinforcements sent to bolster  the Democratic Republic of Congo's fragile border region with  Rwanda have clashed with former rebel units within the army, a  local military commander said on Sunday.