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The Democratic Republic of Congo's military on Thursday shelled positions it believed were held by mutineers who have been fighting the army in the country's east, a military source said. The army fired heavy artillery from tanks into the hills of Mbuzi and Tchanzu in Nord-Kivu province and received no return fire, the source said. A spokesman for the mutineers
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The United Nations Development Programme's Africa Human Development Report 2012 released today said the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has the potential to become sub-Saharan Africa's breadbasket, yet it has the highest estimated prevalence of malnutrition in the world. Nearly 70 percent of the country's 68 million people are classified as under-nourished by the United Nation, and 38 percent of
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Displaced families have begun to return to their homes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo during a lull in fighting between the army and mutineers, a local civilian leader said Tuesday. "The situation is relatively calm" around Rutshuru on the border with Rwanda and Uganda in the wake of heavy fighting on Sunday, he told AFP. "Since Monday, the number
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Kinshasa - The Democratic Republic of Congo said on Monday that it did not exclude transferring rebel leader Jean Bosco Ntaganda to the ICC, where he is wanted for alleged war crimes committed in 2006. "It is not excluded but it depends on the decision taken by our judges," government spokesperson Lambert Mende told AFP. "He will be judged according
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Kinshasa - Mutineers in the Democratic Republic of Congo claimed on Monday to have killed 26 loyalist troops in heavy fighting near the Rwandan border. "There was a major firefight that lasted at least 30 minutes in the Mbuzi district. We killed 26 soldiers while suffering just one wounded" in the battle on Sunday, Lieutenant Colonel Vianney Kazarana, a spokesperson
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Goma - Scores of residents fled heavy fighting between government forces and army mutineers in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday, a local source told AFP. Disgruntled troops have fought for weeks under rebel leader General Bosco Ntaganda - known as the "Terminator" and wanted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague - or as part of
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A ranger and two soldiers were killed in Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga national park as they protected a road used by civilians fleeing rebels, the WWF nature conservancy body said Saturday. The men came under machine-gun fire by a group of 100 unidentified militia members while attempting to secure an important transit route, said Natasha Kofoworola Quist, a WWF
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Goma - The army in Democratic Republic of Congo was on Friday engaged in heavy fighting in Nord-Kivu province with mutineers who have formed a new rebel force, the rebels and a government official said. "The clashes are going on at Bunagana. We are 6km from the town of Bunagana," a mutineer who was formerly a member of the rebel
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Gisenyi - Nyiraba Herekeza hopes to get to a hospital soon. Ten days ago she was shot in the head as she fled fighting between Congolese government troops and rebels near her home in Gicanga, North Kivu. The bullet is still lodged inside her right eye socket. "I came from my house and ran to the forest. I was running
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A 25-tonne arms cache has been found on the farm of the leader of a band of Congolese army mutineers, the wanted war criminal Bosco Ntaganda, a provincial governor's office said Wednesday. Hundreds of army deserters led by the ex-general have clashed in recent days with loyalist soldiers in the eastern DR Congo town of Kimbumba in a conflict-torn region
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Goma - The army in Democratic Republic of Congo vowed on Monday to go after mutinous troops who fail to return to its ranks before the expiry of an ultimatum issued at the weekend. "We are military men. When the time is up, if the mutineers don't surrender, we are going to pursue operations against them," Colonel Sylvain Ekenge, the
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The army in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo said it was closing in Friday on a farm where renegade General Bosco Ntaganda, an indicted war criminal, was holed up. The Congolese armed forces (FARDC) began their move Thursday towards Mushaki, in the Masisi territory of Nord-Kivu province, where they have been fighting the mutineers led by Ntaganda since Sunday. The
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A top Congolese official on Wednesday said ex-rebel leader Jean Bosco Ntaganda would be tried for recent clashes between the army and forces loyal to the general in the country's restive east. "The Congolese government has asked me to communicate the following -- everything that is happening currently in Masisi is under the responsibility of General Bosco Ntaganda and he
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The Congolese army said Monday that it has launched an offensive against rebel fighters loyal to an indicted war criminal that attacked an army unit at the weekend in the restive east. Six fighters who previously belonged to the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) rebel group were killed Sunday after they attacked government forces in the
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Kinshasa — ore than 7,500 cholera cases have been identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since the beginning of the year as an epidemic that began in June 2011 continues to affect parts if the capital, Kinshasa, as well as four other provinces. In total, more than 30,000 cholera cases have been identified around the country since the
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Kinshasa — Aid agencies are unable to access thousands of people displaced from the town of Mitwaba, in the southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) province of Katanga as a result of recent fighting between rebels and government forces. "Since 11 April, thousands of people have been forced to move from Mitwaba to Kasungeshi 45km away because of an attack
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DR Congo Finance Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo Mapon was on Wednesday appointed prime minister and asked to form a new government, nearly five months after legislative and presidential elections, state television announced. The announcement was read by President Joseph Kabila's press director Andre Ngwej, who said the president had made the decision "in view of the urgency" of the situation.
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The international community and Congolese government must urgently agree upon a new deal to reform the Congolese military, according to a new report by 13 leading international and Congolese civil society groups. The report argues that the lack of political will to reform the security sector in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) risks not only billions of dollars
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Congolese President Joseph Kabila's suggestion that he might arrest war crimes suspect Bosco Ntaganda was a positive sign, but the arrest should be carried out immediately, Human Rights Watch said Friday. The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant in 2006 for Ntaganda, dubbed the "Terminator", on charges of war crimes for using child soldiers in his militia group.
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Kinshasa - A spokesperson for President Joseph Kabila says that the Congolese leader is calling for the arrest of warlord Bosco Ntaganda, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. Kabila's director of communications, Andre Ngwej, told The Associated Press by telephone on Wednesday that the president made the call for Ntaganda's
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The Democratic Republic of Congo's President Joseph Kabila said he would not order the arrest of war crimes suspect Bosco Ntaganda "under pressure" from the international community. "We have more than a hundred reasons to arrest him and we don't lack the force or the means to arrest him, but I will not work under pressure from the international community,"
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President Joseph Kabila arrived Monday in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the current home of an ex-warlord wanted by the world court and where hundreds of former rebels have defected from the army. No official reason was given for Kabila's trip to Goma, the main city in the volatile Nord-Kivu province. Hundreds of members of the rebel
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The Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday warned the leaders of an army defection, including former rebels close to wanted former warlord Bosco Ntaganda, to fall into line or face justice. One of the three officers known to have deserted was a regimental commander and two were former members of the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP)
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Kinshasa - The results of Democratic Republic of Congo's November elections which were marred by violence and fraud claims are not credible, European Union monitors said on Thursday. The EU monitoring mission said in a final report that the results "were not credible in the light of numerous irregularities and fraud witnessed during the electoral process." It said the voters'
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Human Rights activists and UN-backed organizations welcomed the judgment of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which pronounced on Wednesday Congolese former militia leader Thomas Lubanga guilty of conscripting and using child soldiers to fight in Ituri (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo) from September 1, 2002 to August 13, 2003. A summary of the Court's decision was read out to Lubanga
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