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/ 23 January 2009
Rich Congolese mineral deposits are both the bounty and the curse of the war-torn nation, the seeds of recovery and the drivers of the bloody conflict
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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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/ 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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/ 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.
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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.
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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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/ 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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/ 27 November 2008
Rebels in eastern DRC have violated a fragile ceasefire and seized more territory, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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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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/ 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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/ 17 November 2008
Congolese rebel forces said on Monday they had taken new territory and threatened more attacks against government troops.
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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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/ 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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/ 11 November 2008
Rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday said they were holding to a ceasefire despite some skirmishes.
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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.
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/ 7 November 2008
DRC Tutsi rebels and government troops fought near a refugee camp in east DRC on Friday, forcing thousands of civilians to flee in panic.
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/ 5 November 2008
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s warring rivals traded accusations that Angola, Zimbabwe and
Rwanda are mobilising forces to fight in the DRC.
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/ 4 November 2008
Rebels in the east of the DRC accused the government of declaring "war on its people" by refusing to negotiate.
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/ 3 November 2008
Authorities in the DRC on Monday declared a curfew in the key eastern city of Goma, which is threatened by rebels camped on the outskirts.
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/ 3 November 2008
A United Nations aid convoy will head into a rebel-held zone of east Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday to try to reach displaced civilians.
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/ 1 November 2008
Fears mounted over the fate of tens of thousands of people fleeing conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday.
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/ 31 October 2008
Rebel troops were poised outside the Congolese city of Goma on Friday as the EU mulled sending troops to the strife-torn region to prevent a disaster.
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/ 29 October 2008
A new bout of heavy fighting erupted between government and rebel forces on Wednesday in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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/ 28 October 2008
UN peacekeepers prepared to evacuate about 50 foreign aid workers from a town in violence-ravaged eastern DRC on Tuesday as Tutsi rebels advanced.
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/ 27 October 2008
Thousands of civilians fled fresh fighting in the eastern DRC on Monday, forming long columns heading towards Goma on foot.
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/ 5 September 2008
Fighting resumed on Friday between government troops and rebels in eastern DRC in a new breach of a truce agreement, sources on both sides said.
The United Nations Security Council renewed a push for civilian rule in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s militia-plagued east on Sunday as efforts continue to disarm rebel groups.
Forty people died and more than 100 were injured in a passenger-jet crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) city of Goma on Tuesday, the provincial governor said on Wednesday. ”The toll from this accident is now 40 dead and 111 injured,” the governor of Nord-Kivu, Julien Paluku, said after visiting hospitals and clinics.
Rescue workers have recovered 21 bodies from the crash site in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where a passenger plane smashed into a crowded market on take-off, the chairperson of the airline said late on Tuesday — but they have so far been unable to establish if any of the plane’s passengers were among the victims.
A passenger plane carrying 85 people crashed into a crowded neighbourhood in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) town of Goma on Tuesday, and only six survivors have been found so far, government officials said. Smoke engulfed the charred ruins of the aircraft, which appeared to have broken in two.
A senior manager at a world heritage African wildlife park was arrested on Tuesday as an investigation into the killing of 10 rare mountain gorillas gathered pace, a government minister said. Local environment experts said that "profound internal disagreements" within the conservation institute could lie behind the massacre.