Foreign Relations Articles
Rebels, widely believed to be backed by Rwanda, entered the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday, escalating clashes between the insurgents and U.N.-backed Congolese troops defending it.
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Sudan and South Sudan have not yet agreed on how to demilitarise their border - a condition for resuming oil flows, Khartoum said on Monday, but denied it was deliberately delaying the economically vital trade.
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Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo gave the government on Monday 24 hours to open peace talks and pull back its forces or risk an escalation of fighting in the east - some of the worst in four years.
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Sudan's armed forces and a rebel group clashed outside a major city in the troubled western Darfur region, scene of an almost decade-long insurgency, state news agency SUNA said on Sunday.
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South Sudan has rescheduled plans to resume oil production and exports out of neighbouring Sudan, in order to reach an understanding with Khartoum over security issues, the head of the state-owned Nile Petroleum Corporation (NilePet),Paul Adong, said Sunday.
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At least five people were killed when a grenade tore through a minibus in Nairobi's Somali-dominated Eastleigh neighborhood on Sunday, a Reuters witness and police said.
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UN attack helicopters hit rebel positions in eastern Congo on Saturday after insurgents equipped with sophisticated night-vision equipment and mortars gained ground in heavy clashes with government troops and took control of a town, the U.N. said.
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Seven abducted children who were being held by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Western Equatoria State have been rescued and returned safely to their parents in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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South Sudan government is putting all necessary efforts to activate the resumption of oil production which had been shutdown January over disagreements with Sudan on transit fees and other issues.
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Uganda said on Thursday three people had died from an outbreak of the Ebola virus in its central region, near the capital Kampala, the latest bout of deadly haemorrhagic fevers to strike the east African nation in recent months.
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