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/ 23 January 2009
Tutsi rebel leader Laurent Nkunda has been arrested in Rwandan territory after he tried to resist a joint Rwandan-Congolese military operation.
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/ 21 January 2009
A surge of Rwandan troops into eastern DRC as part of a joint operation to oust a Hutu militia has stirred Congolese memories of past atrocities.
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/ 21 January 2009
More than 1 500 Rwandan troops have crossed into eastern DRC, joining Congolese forces in an effort to oust the Hutu rebels.
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/ 20 January 2009
Rwandan troops crossed the border into eastern DRC on Tuesday under a December agreement between the two countries to hunt down Rwandan Hutu rebels.
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/ 19 January 2009
Honore Tadri was in Faradje on Christmas Day when about 150 armed men surrounded the market square where most of the town’s residents had gathered.
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/ 18 January 2009
Ugandan rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army slaughtered at least 620 people in DRC during a Christmas rampage, Human Rights Watch says.
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/ 18 January 2009
A pledge by DRC rebels to abandon a four-year insurgency marks a major step towards ending more than a decade of conflict in the east of the country.
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/ 17 January 2009
Dissident commanders from the main rebel group in eastern DRC on Friday declared an end to the conflict in the troubled region.
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/ 16 January 2009
Rebels have killed 567 people and displaced 115 000 in northeast DRC’s Oriental province since September, the UN refugee agency said on Friday.
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/ 13 January 2009
Ugandan rebel group the LRA has slaughtered at least 537 people and kidnapped another 408 in the north-east of the DRC, the UN said on Tuesday.
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/ 11 January 2009
Rebel National Congress for the Defence of the People forces led by renegade Tutsi general Laurent Nkunda have taken over the centre at Mabenga.
Rebels clashed on Friday with a pro-government militia in eastern DRC as a United Nations envoy held talks with guerrilla chief Laurent Nkunda.
A rebel faction on Thursday issued a fresh challenge to DRC rebel leader Laurent Nkunda, reiterating a demand he step down immediately.
Andrew Strauss will take over as England cricket captain following the resignation of Kevin Pietersen, the managing director of England cricket said.
DRC guerrillas and government negotiators must agree a ceasefire before a planned heads of state summit this month, a mediator said on Wednesday.
One of the DRC’s main rebel military chiefs denied late on Monday that Laurent Nkunda, head of the CNDP, had been toppled by a dissident group.
Ugandan rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army have clashed with government forces in a national park in the north-east of the DRC.
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/ 31 December 2008
The ongoing violence in the DRC has put children at particular risk of recruitment into armed groups, Unicef said on Wednesday.
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/ 30 December 2008
Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army rebels killed more than 400 people in Christmas massacres in northern DRC, the Caritas aid charity said on Tuesday.
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/ 22 December 2008
Peace talks between the DRC government and rebel forces in the eastern provinces will resume on January 7, mediators say.
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/ 18 December 2008
DRC rebels and government negotiators resumed peace talks on Thursday in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, after a week-long break.
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/ 18 December 2008
A 17 000-strong peacekeeping mission in the DRC is no longer equal to the task after a recent upsurge in fighting, a top UN official says.
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/ 17 December 2008
Nearly half the population in the DRC may not live to 40 years of age, the United Nations Development Programme said on Wednesday.
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/ 16 December 2008
The commander of UN peacekeepers in the DRC says his troops are ”dissatisfied” because they are unable to protect civilians as they would like.
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/ 15 December 2008
The threat of Ugandan rebels on its soil overcame the DRC’s differences with Uganda, a Kinshasa government spokesperson said Monday.
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/ 15 December 2008
Forces from Uganda, the DRC and southern Sudan launched a joint military operation on Sunday against Uganda’s rebel Lord’s Resistance Army.
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/ 13 December 2008
Proceeds from the control of lucrative natural resources remain a key driver of the insecurity in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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/ 12 December 2008
Amnesty International called on Friday on the United Nations’ peacekeeping force in eastern DRC to do a better job of protecting civilians.
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/ 9 December 2008
DRC rebels and government officials began a second day of direct talks under UN auspices in Nairobi on Tuesday, UN representatives said.
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/ 9 December 2008
Hutu rebels operating in the eastern DRC warned on Monday that any attempt to disarm their forces could spark a ”long and dreadful war”.
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/ 6 December 2008
Rwandan Hutu rebels based in the DRC called on Saturday for talks with Kigali and Kinshasa after both agreed to mount an offensive against them.
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/ 5 December 2008
The government of the DRC and a rebel movement are to meet on Monday in Kenya to formalise a ceasefire, Kinshasa’s foreign minister said on Friday.