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Congo troops in disarray as military chief sacked (Reuters)

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LUOFU, Congo (Reuters) - Demoralised Congolese government troops, retreating before eastern rebels, clashed on Tuesday with their own local militia allies who tried to make them stand and fight after the armed forces chief was...

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Rwanda: RNOC/Federations Operating Illegal

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Sports and culture minister Joseph Habineza has given January,1,2009 as the deadline for all sports federations and the national Olympics committee, Rwanda National Olympic Committee (RNOC) to legalise their operations.

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DR Congo: dynamic of conflict, Gérard Prunier

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Since August 2008 the situation in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has grown progressively worse in ways that seem hard to understand. Gérard Prunier is research professor at the University of Paris. He is...

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Kabuye Arrest Dominates News

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Rwanda: Kabuye Arrest Dominates News Posted to the web 17 November 2008 Frank Kagabo Kigali The major news of the week was the arrest in Germany of the Director of State protocol Rose Kabuye last Sunday. Following her arrest,...

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Rwanda: APR Stars OK With Coach

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Posted to the web 15 November 2008 Hamza Nkuutu Kigali He may be under scrutiny by anyone connected to the club but APR head coach Rene Feller has received backing from one of his most senior players. The Dutchman is under no...

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Over 250,000 displaced as sexual violence erupts in DRC

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‘The first soldiers killed my brother and his son, then I was raped as I fled’ The first soldiers kicked down the door to her house, killed her younger brother, his wife and son. Then, as Ngiraganga fled barefoot towards...

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Africa: Continent Needs a Standby Army to Deal With Her Conflicts

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14-Nov-2008
        

Posted to the web 14 November 2008 Jerry Okungui Kampala There are 17,000 United Nations troops in the DRC. If anything, all we have heard for years was the involvement of these UN troops; especially those from India for...

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Burundi Political Activist Jailed

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13-Nov-2008 1 related
        

"I think I say loudly what [others] think quietly," Alexis Sinduhije told an interviewer earlier this year. In the turbulent Great Lakes region of Africa, where chaotic Congo meets the former genocidal killing fields of Rwanda...

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Congo: Beware of a stampede to war

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13-Nov-2008
        

The UN may send more troops to Congo. Would they do any good?WHEN elephants fight, goes a Swahili saying, it’s the grass that suffers. And so it is in eastern Congo, where civilians are being trampled in a terrible way in...

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Congo-Kinshasa: UN Challenged to Send More Peacekeepers

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12-Nov-2008 1 related
        

Because the crisis in and around Goma remained extremely dire and the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) remained overstretched, the “bottom line” was clear: more forces were...

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