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Congolese soldiers advanced toward rebel lines Saturday in renewed fighting that threatens a tenuous cease-fire around the eastern provincial capital Goma Renewed fighting erupted Friday, and by Saturday morning the army had moved more than half a mile (at least...

Sporadic gunfire and explosions echoed Wednesday around this town in eastern Congo, as rebels fought pro-government militiamen for a second day, forcing thousands to flee. A wider cease-fire between the rebels and the government was holding, however, and diplomats scrambled...

The European Union could send troops to Congo if a fragile cease-fire between rebel fighters and the army fails, the U.K. minister for African affairs said Saturday as rebels forced tens of thousands of people from makeshift refugee camps in...

Congo rebels agreed Thursday to open humanitarian corridors near besieged Goma, but aid agencies warned of a "catastrophe" as terrified residents recounted tales of rape, looting and murder. Rebel leader Laurent Nkunda, whose forces are on the edge of the...

Doctors are treating dozens of cholera cases at a refugee camp just outside Congo's eastern provincial capital of Goma . Doctors Without Borders say they treated 13 new cases of cholera on Sunday and have seen 45 cases since Friday...

Congolese soldiers advanced toward rebel lines Saturday in renewed fighting that threatens a tenuous cease-fire around the eastern provincial capital Goma . Fighting broke out Friday near Kibati, about six miles (10 kilometers) north of Goma...A half mile (one kilometer)...

Regional Heads of State and Governments are due in the country for a special consultative summit on the current crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo. President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania, who is also the African Union Chairman, was the...

The United Nations says rebels have fired rockets at two vehicles carrying peacekeepers during heavy fighting in Congo. U.N. spokesman Col. Samba Tall says some soldiers were slightly injured and both vehicles were damaged in the attack on Sunday. Tall...

Fighting between Laurent Nkunda's Tutsi rebels and government forces and allied militias in the mineral-rich North Kivu region has displaced 250,000 since August and severely strained relations between Congo and Rwanda. Their presidents, Joseph Kabila and Paul Kagame, were among...