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• U.N. envoy presses Congo rebels on cease-fire
The visit by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo came after he talked to Congo's president and the president of neighboring Angola in recent days, trying to get a resolution to Congo's political crisis. Obasanjo flew Sunday by helicopter to ...
• U.N. hands out food in Congo rebel areas
Angola and Zimbabwe sent tanks and fighter planes to back Congo's government in exchange for access to lucrative diamond and copper mines to the south and west. Eastern Congo has been unstable since millions of refugees spilled across the border from ...
• Congo rebels make roadblock out of bodies
... troops just a few hundred yards down the road whom the rebels had battled the night before. And for the few fearful civilians trickling past the frontline, it was clear message that Congo's savage war is not easing amid fears it could draw in Angola ...
• Zimbabwe urged to form unity government
Congolese President Joseph Kabila attended the Johannesburg meeting of the 15-nation regional bloc, with his delegation sitting next to Angola, a neighbor Kabila had asked last week for military help. When asked by reporters about numerous reports of ...
• Army, rebels renew fighting in Congo
Congo asked Angola for support Oct. 29, as rebels led by Nkunda, a Tutsi former general, advanced toward Goma, capital of North Kivu province near the Rwandan border. On Friday, a U.N. official and a Uruguayan peacekeeping officer said that an ...