Clashes in Congo park endanger gorillas
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Renewed fighting Saturday inside a national park in Congo that is home to endangered mountain gorillas forced rangers to flee for the second time in less than a week, conservationists said.
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BUKAVU, Congo  - Rival factions of Congo's army battled in the eastern region of the vast country Saturday, killing several people, a top military official said.
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The most common type of gorilla is now "critically endangered," one step away from global extinction, according to the 2007 Red List of Threatened Species released Wednesday by the World Conservation Union.
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Army reinforcements sent to bolster the Democratic Republic of Congo&#39;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 fighting between government troops and Congolese rebels has raised fears of a renewal of the warfare that broke out in August 1998.
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GOMA, Congo  - Thousands of civilians fled renewed fighting between Tutsi-dominated rebels, army troops and pro-government militia in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday, the U.N. peacekeeping mission said.
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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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Police have arrested four suspected poachers and recovered a baby mountain gorilla that was stolen from its family in the forests of neighboring Congo, a spokesman said Monday.
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Not far from a hillside where several mountain gorillas shot dead last summer lie buried, park ranger Innocent Mburanumwe peers across a primordial canopy of treetops into what may be the most dangerous game reserve on earth.
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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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Fighting has broken out in a region of Democratic Republic of Congo near Rwanda between rival factions within Congo&#39;s supposedly unified national army.
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Diplomats from Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo met in Kampala on Friday to discuss border tensions that have triggered deadly clashes on one of Africa's hottest frontiers in the search for oil.
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At least 37 people have been killed in clashes between security forces and opposition supporters protesting against the results of governorship polls in Congo's most western province, officials said on Thursday.
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DAKAR, Senegal -- UN Security Council diplomats appealed to Rwanda for restraint yesterday after President Paul Kagame threatened to renew central Africa's deadliest conflict, saying his country was coming under attack from militias in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Fighting erupts between rival factions in DR Congo's recently-merged army along the border with Rwanda.
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GENEVA - The most common type of gorilla is now "critically endangered," one step away from global extinction, according to the 2007 Red List of Threatened Species released yesterday by the World Conservation Union.
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An outbreak of Ebola virus in northwestern Republic of Congo has killed 5,000 gorillas, helping to push the threatened species even closer to extinction, a study says.