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News | Laurent Nkunda
| No decision yet on amnesty for dissident general, official says | |
IRIN - January 19, 2007 | |
 | Discussions are still continuing on whether to grant amnesty to the dissident general, Laurent Nkunda, who led an anti-government rebellion in North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Deputy Defence Minister for Army Integration, Bernard Mena Mboyo, said on Friday. |
| Congo Rebels Shoot Silverback Gorilla For Food | |
Wildlife Extra/Congo Rangers - January 18, 2007 | |
 | Rebel soldiers commanded by local warlord, Laurent Nkunda, shot and killed a silverback Mountain Gorilla in the Southern Sector of Virunga National Park, in the war torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. It has also been confirmed that a second gorilla has also been killed, while unconfirmed reports indicate that possibly several more have been shot |
| Renegade General's Forces to Rejoin Congo Army | |
VOA News - January 18, 2007 | |
 | Democratic Republic of Congo's renegade General Laurent Nkunda has said his forces are reintegrating into the country's national army, following an informal peace deal struck in neighboring Rwanda. Nkunda, who led troops loyal to him into rebellion in 2004, is being sought under an international arrest warrant for war crimes. |
| Rwanda Holds Talks in Effort to End DRC Violence | |
VOA News - January 4, 2007 | |
 | Rwanda says it is hosting talks between the Democratic Republic of Congo's government and renegade Congolese General Laurent Nkunda.A Rwandan military spokesman, Major Jill Rutaremara, told reporters Wednesday that DRC officials and representatives for General Nkunda have met in the Rwandan capital, Kigali. |
| Fighting Resumes Between Government, Dissident Soldiers in DRC | |
VOA News - December 28, 2006 | |
| The U.N. mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo says fighting resumed Thursday between dissident soldiers and government troops in the country's east.U.N. officials say troops loyal to dissident general Laurent Nkunda were battling government soldiers in North Kivu province. |
| Clashes, displacement in the east | |
IRIN - December 28, 2006 | |
 | Thousands of people have been displaced from their homes in eastern DRC due to renewed clashes between the regular army, and forces allied to renegade commander Laurent Nkunda, according to military sources and the UN peacekeeping mission, MONUC. |
| UN reports security improvement with many militia groups demobilizing | |
UN News Service - December 20, 2006 | |
 | Security in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has improved, with numerous militia groups joining the United Nations-run disarmament programme, and calm returning in the east after fighting between the Congolese Army and partisans of a rogue general, the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUC) reported today. |
| Security crucial to Kabila's success | |
IRIN - December 20, 2006 | |
 | Joseph Kabila won Congo's first democratic presidential elections in decades, but now the 35-year-old former guerrilla leader faces the daunting task of rebuilding from scratch a country almost the size of western Europe. |
| Precarious humanitarian situation in North Kivu | |
Monuc - December 13, 2006 | |
 | At the weekly MONUC press conference this Wednesday December 13 2006, MONUC stated that the humanitarian situation in North Kivu remains 'precarious', as there are over 500,000 people internally displaced people (IDP's), representing half of the total number of IDP's in the DRC. |
| Thousands return to eastern town of Sake | |
IRIN - December 6, 2006 | |
 | At least 15,000 people who had fled fighting in Sake, in the eastern province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo, are returning home but without assistance, according to the local displacement returns committee. |
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