Congo VP Boycots National Unity Government
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One of Congo's four vice presidents announced Monday he was boycotting the country's national unity government, saying genocide was being committed against his ethnic Tutsi kinsmen and questioning the success of peace accords ending the country's civil war.
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Central African Republic President Francois Bozize Friday said his country would soon open its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, closed since 2002 due to civil war there.
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The governing Democratic Progressive Party is ready to cede some power and resources to other parties for the sake of national unity, President Chen Shui-bian (é³æ°´æ) said yesterday.
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Democratic Republic of 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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African leaders supported an arms embargo and other UN sanctions on the Ivory Coast government and rebels on Sunday. While they did, Ivory Coast President Laurent
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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo  -  Former rebels and loyalists now in Congo's transitional  government headed to South Africa on Friday for talks on  reviving the country's shaky peace process and improving  regional security, officials said.
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Rivals Hamas and Fatah will present a national unity government to parliament for approval Saturday, in hopes of ending deadly internal fighting and leading the Palestinians out of international isolation.
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Democratic Republic of Congo's first  freely elected parliament in more than 40 years convened on  Friday, with President Joseph Kabila's coalition poised to  appoint a prime minister.
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South Africa and Belgium have expressed confidence that elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will go ahead as planned in seven months time.
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The new Prime Minister of DR Congo, Antoine Gizenga, names supporters of the president to his cabinet.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo has replaced its army commander in the eastern province of North Kivu, the scene of days of fighting between government reinforcements and rebel units, authorities said.
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MONTEGO BAY - Prime Minister of Barbados Owen Arthur has called for the development of &quot;new modalities of cooperation&quot; in the fight against HIV/AIDS, as the region moved closer to the establishment of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).
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Minority Leader and Member of Parliament of Nadowli North Alban Kingsford Sumani Bagbin says current happenings in the Ivory Coast have vindicated the submission he made at an NDC function in Kumasi that the International Community had lost confidence in
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GOMA, Congo -- At least 100,000 people have been displaced in the volatile eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo since January, when the government and a powerful renegade general agreed to combine troops in an attempt to pacify the area, says a UN Security Council report released this past weekend.
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By Julien PonthusBRUSSELS  - A French-speaking party agreed on Wednesday to join a coalition that Belgium's caretaker Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt is trying to form, and media reported an interim government could be formed by the end of this week."The prime minister has unblocked the situation," a spokesman for Verhofstadt said of the decision by the Christian Democratic party.Belgium has been without a government since an election in June.Verhofstadt was asked by King Albert to try to end the political deadlock and form an interim government. Read more
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AFRICAN National Congress (ANC) head of presidency and spokesman Smuts Ngonyama has called for a code of conduct for the tripartite alliance, a move observers said could lead to a muzzling of dissent.
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The United Nations mission in Congo (MONUC) said it will deploy peacekeepers on the frontline between the regular army and mutineers in the eastern Democratic Repupic of Congo's (DRC) province of Nord Kivu.