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/ 4 December 2008
If not by the gun, many in the DRC die from conflict-induced illnesses, preventable diseases or hunger in a resource-rich but shattered nation.
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/ 4 December 2008
Just a few hundred metres separate the army and rebels near Kibati in the DRC’s volatile east, where hundreds cross the front line daily.
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/ 3 December 2008
A British surgeon volunteering in the Democratic Republic of Congo saved the life of a teenage boy by amputating his shoulder.
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/ 1 December 2008
The UN Human Rights Council on Monday condemned abuses against civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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/ 30 November 2008
Congolese Tutsi rebel leader General Laurent Nkunda threatened war on Saturday unless DRC’s government entered a new round of talks with him.
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/ 30 November 2008
It looks as though she is holding nothing at all, then she briefly unwraps a fold of bright cloth at her chest and there is a tiny, wizened baby.
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/ 29 November 2008
The UN’s special envoy was set to meet on Saturday with DRC rebel leader Laurent Nkunda after a fresh onslaught by his troops shattered a truce.
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/ 28 November 2008
Rebels in eastern DRC have captured a new town in an area where they had clashed with pro-government rebels, the UN said on Friday.
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/ 26 November 2008
The government of the DRC on Wednesday rejected a report by Human Rights Watch alleging it killed at least 500 suspected political opponents.
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/ 26 November 2008
Special envoy Olusegun Obasanjo will embark on a second peace mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo this weekend, the UN said on Tuesday.
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/ 25 November 2008
The government of the DRC has killed ”at least 500” suspected political opponents in the last two years, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.
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/ 25 November 2008
Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo urged the DRC president on Monday to talk with Tutsi rebel leader Laurent Nkunda.
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/ 24 November 2008
Civilians on both sides of the frontlines in eastern DRC are being killed, raped and abducted, human rights campaigners said on Monday.
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/ 24 November 2008
The planned deployment of extra UN troops in the DRC is a welcome move but not enough to restore peace, France’s human rights minister says.
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/ 23 November 2008
The crowd had been sweltering for three hours in a stadium on Saturday before Laurent Nkunda arrived and launched a harangue against the UN.
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/ 22 November 2008
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s battered government has little choice but to open unpopular talks with dissident General Laurent Nkunda.
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/ 21 November 2008
The DRC government on Friday demanded a stronger mandate for the peacekeeping force in the country after the UN voted to send extra troops.
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/ 20 November 2008
Hundreds of DRC rebel fighters pulled back on Wednesday from frontline positions in a move the UN hopes will open the way for peace talks.
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/ 19 November 2008
DRC rebel fighters pulled back on Wednesday from two key battlefronts as aid workers warned of a massive increase in malnutrition.
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/ 18 November 2008
The United Nations Security Council hopes to vote this week on a resolution that would boost the number of UN peacekeepers in the DRC.
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/ 17 November 2008
The DRC’s army clashed with rebels in some of the worst fighting in a week despite the rebel leader’s promise to support a ceasefire.
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/ 16 November 2008
Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda agreed on Sunday to take part in UN-backed peace talks, but fighting between the army and rebels raged on.
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/ 16 November 2008
A United Nations envoy met Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda for talks to seek peace in eastern DRC on Sunday as fresh fighting flared.
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/ 15 November 2008
Rwanda’s President, Paul Kagame, has accused the United Nations of betraying a pledge to combat Hutu extremists in eastern Congo and then blaming his country for the failure of a costly peacekeeping mission to end years of conflict. In an interview with the Guardian, Kagame dismissed accusations that Rwanda is backing the Tutsi rebel leader, […]
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/ 15 November 2008
Despite calls for a ceasefire, fighting continues in the eastern DRC and the atmosphere remains tense, writes Stephanie Wolters.
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/ 14 November 2008
About 60 000 refugees are to be moved from a camp on the frontline of fighting between DRC rebels and government forces, the United Nations says.
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/ 13 November 2008
Michel became a child soldier after he left his house in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to get some milk and never returned.
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/ 13 November 2008
There are growing fears in the DRC that the Nord-Kivu conflict could escalate, with the potential to bring violence to far-removed capital Kinshasa.
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/ 13 November 2008
UN peacekeepers blamed rebels in eastern DRC on Wednesday for forcing thousands of displaced people to flee a refugee camp.
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/ 12 November 2008
The UN Security Council is overcoming its reluctance to send more peacekeepers to help avert a new war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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/ 11 November 2008
The UN on Tuesday accused government forces of a wave of violence against civilians, including looting and rape, in several towns in eastern DRC.
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/ 10 November 2008
Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda said on Monday he would fight African peacekeepers if they backed government troops against him.