Invasion alert in DR Congo town
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Security has been stepped up in the border town of Bukavu after Rwanda and Burundi said they could send troops into Democratic Republic of Congo.
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UK forces are to undertake an evacuation of British nationals from the west African state of Ivory Coast. Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said a company of the Royal Gurkha Regiment is &quot;pre-positioning&quot; in the
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Congo&#39;s decision to send thousands of soldiers into its volatile North Kivu province is a high-risk tactic that could exacerbate a simmering regional conflict, analysts say.
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Nepalese forces are on alert ahead of a deadline set by rebels, who have threatened to blockade the capital.
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Travel: Local governor urges residents to demonstrate against a military takeover.
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KINSHASA, Congo -- Congo intends to send up to 10,000 reinforcements toward its eastern border with Rwanda, a presidential spokesman said yesterday, after credible reports that thousands of Rwandan troops crossed into its territory, raising fears of reigniting a devastating five-year regional war.
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Some 24 people are killed when 300 militiamen attacked a town in north-eastern DR Congo, the UN says.
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Some 5,000 extra troops start to arrive in the DR Congo to reinforce a stretched UN peacekeeping force.
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Ivory Coast&#39;s army said today it had launched an attack on the rebel stronghold of Bouake in the north of the country. &quot;We have been operating in Bouake since this morning.
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KINSHASA  - The Democratic Republic of Congo army is fighting &quot;a war against Rwanda&quot; in the east of the vast country, a government spokesman said after two days of fighting in the town of Kanyabayonga had left dozens dead.
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A mysterious group takes a mining town  in the south of the DR Congo, as the president embarks on his first trip to the volatile east.
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Rwanda troops pushed briefly into  Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to attack Hutu rebels early  this week but have since returned home, diplomatic sources in  Africa's Great Lakes region said on Friday.
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Rebels are advancing on Rwanda from  bases in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Kigali will use  any means necessary to repel them, a senior Rwandan official  said on Wednesday. "There are a number of operations and mass  movements of rebels toward our borders. The ultimate objective  is to attack us in the near future," Richard Sezibera,  President Paul Kagame's adviser on DRC, told Reuters, referring  to Rwandan Hutu rebels based in the jungles of Rwanda's vast  neighbor.
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KISANGANI, DR Congo  - The Democratic Republic of Congo, which is emerging from five years of bloody warfare, &quot;will allow no further aggression,&quot; warned President Joseph Kabila on his first visit to the restive east of this vast central African
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Sudanese security forces have again stormed a refugee camp in the troubled region of Darfur and attacked crowds. At least four jeep-loads of police arrived at the El-Geer camp near Nyala in the early hours, according to a BBC correspondent at the scene.
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GOMA, DR Congo  - President Paul Kagame confirmed that Rwandan troops will launch an operation in pursuit of Rwandan Hutu rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as UN troops spotted about 100 soldiers in the explosive region.
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AN advance guard of British troops was in war-torn Ivory Coast yesterday planning a rescue mission. Four vehicles carrying a dozen soldiers were spotted in the capital Abidjan as up to 120 troops were put on stand-by to fly to the former French colony.