100,000 flee fresh fighting in Congo
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More than 100,000 Congolese have fled renewed fighting between the Democratic Republic of Congo army and rebels in the battle-torn east of the country, United Nations officials said yesterday.
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GOMA, Congo  - UN observers encountered what they believed to be about 100 Rwandan troops in eastern Congo, a UN official said Wednesday, marking the first UN sighting since Rwanda threatened to send in its forces against Rwanda Hutu rebels sheltering there.
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Aid workers in eastern DR Congo struggle to cope with a surge of people fleeing recent fighting.
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Flames and smoke rose from a camp of militiamen attached to a Congolese presidential candidate Thursday, and explosions could be heard behind the camp's walls. People, some bleeding, fled from the camp of the militia of Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former rebel leader who is one of four vice presidents in Congo's transitional government.
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KINSHASA, 20 December (IRIN) - With fresh battle fronts opening up and tens of thousands of civilians fleeing their homes, there has been mounting concern among international bodies that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is heading for a major war.
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Thousands of people flee fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo amid fears of a humanitarian crisis.
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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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At least 100 people died in the weekend fighting between government forces and rebels in Chad, aid agencies say.
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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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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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More than 100 people have died in a remote part of Congo, including all those who attended the funerals of two village chiefs, in what health officials fear is an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever.
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More than 100 people have died in a remote part of southeastern Congo in what health officials fear is an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever.
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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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GOMA, Congo -- Thousands of civilians have fled their homes after clashes in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said yesterday, although it was unclear who was behind the violence.
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KINSHASA, Friday - The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Thursday began deploying troops to the east of the country amid reports that Rwandan forces were operating in the area and thousands of civilians were fleeing clashes.
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GOMA, Congo, July 14 -- At least 100,000 people have been displaced in the volatile eastern region of Congo since January, when the government and a powerful renegade general agreed to combine their troops in an attempt to pacify the area, according to a U.N. Security Council report released...
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Dissident soldiers advance on government positions in eastern DR Congo following renewed fighting.