Fighting Subsides as Delegation Tours Eastern Congo
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There appears to be a lull in the fighting Monday as top regional officials and a delegation from Congo&#39;s capital tour parts of eastern Congo destroyed by recent fighting.
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UN Security Council envoys are visiting eastern DR Congo, where UN troops maintain a fragile peace.
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More than 150 rebels were killed when U.N. peacekeepers fought off a rebel offensive in east Congo last week, officials said on Tuesday, adding that the heavy losses had led to surrenders among the divided insurgents.
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NAIROBI, Oct. 23 -- A variety of armed groups, including the Congolese military, have routinely terrorized civilians across eastern Congo in the past year, with killings, massacres, rapes, abductions, looting and other brutalities perpetrated by all parties in the conflict, according to a report ...
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afrol News, 20 December - The weekend has seen the resumption of heavy fighting between factions of the Congolese army in the province North Kivu in eastern Congo, close to the Rwandan border.
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Fighting resumed on Sunday between troops loyal to the Congolese government and dissident units around the eastern town of Kanyabayonga, the United Nations mission in the central African country said.
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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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Fighting in eastern DR Congo may impede elections planned for June, a United Nations report warns.
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Congo's government spokesman denied  Tuesday that rival army factions were fighting each other in  the east of the country and insisted the clashes were between  Congolese and Rwandan forces.
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Members of the UN Security Council Monday visited the Congo, one of the conflict-ridden countries the world body is seeking to bring peace and stability.
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21 December 2004 - In a bid to facilitate the delivery of relief aid, United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have set up a temporary buffer zone in the country&#39;s troubled east, where recent factional fighting threatened to
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Weekend fighting between rival factions of the armed forces in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has displaced an undisclosed number of people, official sources reported on Monday.
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Days of clashes between the army and Rwandan and Congolese militias in eastern Congo have killed at least 23 combatants and forced thousands to flee, the army and U.N. officials said Tuesday.
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NAIROBI, Sept. 8 -- The prevalence and intensity of sexual violence against women in eastern Congo are "almost unimaginable," the top U.N. humanitarian official said Sunday after visiting the country's most fragile region, where militias groups have preyed on the civilian population for years.
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GOMA, Congo  - United Nations peacekeepers in  helicopters and armored troop carriers headed for the front  line in eastern Congo on Tuesday to stop renegade soldiers  advancing further after more than a week of fighting.
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Congolese soldiers loyal to a renegade general took the eastern town of Sake on Sunday after a brief engagement with U.N. troops and clashes with the army that killed at least five and wounded dozens, U.N. officials said.
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GOMA, Congo -- At least 100,000 people have been displaced in the volatile eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo since January, when the government and a powerful renegade general agreed to combine troops in an attempt to pacify the area, says a UN Security Council report released this past weekend.