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Congo signs peace deal with M23 rebels: Kenya presidential spokesman

YoopyaDecember 13, 2013February 2, 2024

by YoopyaDecember 13, 2013February 2, 202402

(Reuters) – The Congolese government has signed a peace deal with the M23 rebels it had been fighting until they laid down their arms last...

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Congo’s President in Uganda for talks on stalled peace deal

YoopyaDecember 3, 2013February 3, 2024

by YoopyaDecember 3, 2013February 3, 202404

(Reuters) – The Democratic Republic of Congo’s president, Joseph Kabila, flew into Uganda on Monday for talks aimed at reviving a peace deal between his...

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Congo, M23 rebels peace signing delayed over wording of pact

YoopyaNovember 12, 2013January 31, 2024

by YoopyaNovember 12, 2013January 31, 202402

(Reuters) – A ceremony to formally end Congo’s bloodiest conflict in a decade was delayed on Monday by an 11th-hour spat between the government and...

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M23 fighters in eastern Congo say ending rebellion

YoopyaNovember 6, 2013February 14, 2024

by YoopyaNovember 6, 2013February 14, 202402

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The M23 rebel group blamed for killing scores of civilians in eastern Congo over the last year and a half announced...

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DR Congo military attacks last areas held by M23 rebels

YoopyaNovember 4, 2013February 14, 2024

by YoopyaNovember 4, 2013February 14, 2024010

Government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo are attacking the last areas held by the M23 rebel group in the forested hills in the...

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M23 rebels clash with army in eastern Congo

YoopyaOctober 25, 2013March 17, 2024

by YoopyaOctober 25, 2013March 17, 202404

(Reuters) – Congo’s M23 rebels clashed with government troops on Friday near the eastern city of Goma, a rebel leaders said, in the first heavy...

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Fight against al Shabaab instructive model for future: U.S. general

YoopyaDecember 4, 2012June 19, 2023

by YoopyaDecember 4, 2012June 19, 202304

(Reuters) – The African Union war against al Shabaab in Somalia this past year has left the Islamist group “largely in a survival mode” and...

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Uganda military chief: Congo M23 rebels to pull out of Goma

YoopyaNovember 27, 2012

by YoopyaNovember 27, 2012022

(Reuters) – Uganda’s military chief said on Tuesday that the leader of the M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Colonel Sultani Makenga, has...

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DR Congo: UN to sanction M23 rebels

YoopyaOctober 20, 2012

by YoopyaOctober 20, 201201

The UN Security Council says it intends to impose sanctions against leaders of the M23 rebel movement in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It said...