More than a decade and billions of dollars after UN peacekeepers deployed to the DRC during a civil war, President Joseph Kabila wants them out.
A withdrawal of the UN mission in the DRC in 2011, as sought by Kinshasa, would be "premature," France’s UN ambassador said on Tuesday.
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/ 24 December 2009
The UN Security Council on Wednesday extended the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in the strife-torn DRC by five months.
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/ 9 December 2009
The UN Security Council faces a major headache in the DRC, where it must extend but perhaps also rethink the mandate of a UN peacekeeping force.
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/ 20 November 2009
Authorities in the DRC have approached the UN about scaling down the large UN mission in the country, a government spokesperson said.
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/ 12 November 2009
The UN head of peacekeeping in the DRC has rejected accusations that the organisation is complicit in war crimes Congolese troops allegedly committed.
The world’s largest UN peacekeeping effort risks unraveling in the the DRC, hampered by the potential loss of more than a quarter of its troops
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/ 19 February 2009
Early in the morning the warnings came: rebels notorious for vicious attacks on civilians were advancing.
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/ 28 January 2009
The leader of Rwandan Hutu rebels on Wednesday predicted that intense fighting would erupt within days in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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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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/ 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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/ 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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/ 11 December 2008
At least 150 civilians were massacred in a Democratic Republic of Cong town last month, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday.
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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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/ 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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/ 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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/ 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
Rebels in the DRC closed on the eastern city of Goma on Wednesday, sparking chaotic scenes as government forces and refugees scrambled to leave.
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/ 25 October 2008
The Security Council will probably authorise deployment of special forces and military hardware to help UN troops better protect civilians in the DRC.
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/ 14 October 2008
The DRC’s powder-keg east is being bled dry as Kinshasa and Rwanda refuse to bury the hatchet, analysts say.
United Nations peacekeepers are protecting a camp of civilians forced to flee fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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/ 22 November 2007
Fighting flared in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s powder keg east on Wednesday, as the army battled insurgent troops after killing 20 rebel soldiers who staged a pre-dawn attack. Men loyal to cashiered general Laurent Nkunda launched a raid on an army position near Rutshuru, the headquarters of an eponymous district in the troubled Nord-Kivu province.
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/ 19 October 2007
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) army says desertions have weakened rebel forces ahead of a planned offensive against them, but rebel general Laurent Nkunda remains defiant. On Thursday the army put on show what they said were 80 deserters wearing ragtag uniforms from Nkunda’s forces.
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/ 12 October 2007
Renewed fighting broke out on Friday between the regular army and renegade troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Nord-Kivu province, a local spokesperson with the United Nations mission in DRC said. "Clashes have been reported from Katsiru, a village between Mweso and Kitchanga," Monuc spokesperson Claude Cyrille said.
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/ 11 October 2007
Renegade former general Laurent Nkunda late on Wednesday called for a truce in his battle with the army of the Democratic Republic of Congo after at least 85 rebels died in four days of heavy clashes. Nkunda also offered to send 500 of his men to a transit camp pending their integration into the regular forces.
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/ 10 October 2007
More than 100 fighters, including 85 rebels, have been killed in clashes in the Nord-Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a top army officer said on Wednesday. Colonel Delphin Kahimbi, the army’s second in command in the eastern province, said 16 troops and 85 rebels had been killed around Karuba.
Renegade ex-general Laurent Nkunda said Monday that his troops had launched an ”active offensive” against the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) army in the east of the country. An officer in the DRC armed force confirmed that fighting had broken out again in the Masisi highlands.
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/ 13 September 2007
Three mass graves have been uncovered in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where a renegade general, government forces and rebel groups have clashed for weeks, a United Nations mission said on Thursday. ”We do not know the exact number of victims but there are several in each of the graves,” Sylvie van den Wildenberg, a spokesperson, said.