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Talks to end fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have collapsed after rebel and government representatives failed to reach a ceasefire agreement over three days of talks in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
Olusegun Obasanjo, the UN special envoy and former Nigerian president chairing the meeting, said on Wednesday that talks broke down after participating rebels [...]

More than 100,000 refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been cut off from humanitarian aid behind rebel lines, the UN secretary-general says.
Ban Ki-moon called for an immediate ceasefire between government troops and renegade general Laurent Nkunda’s fighters in order to send desperately needed help to trapped civilians on Tuesday.
Tens of thousands of people [...]

A cholera outbreak in a refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo has spread to the eastern provincial capital of Goma, aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres says.
The rising fears of an epidemic come amid warnings from rebels that they would fight any foreign forces sent to help government troops as they continued their standoff [...]

Laurent Nkunda, the Congolese rebel leader, has threatened to extend his armed offensive from the eastern regions of Democratic Republic of Congo to the capital Kinshasa unless the government agreed to political negotiations with him.
“If they refuse to negotiate, it will mean they will be ready to only fight and we will fight them because [...]

Rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have condemned the government’s refusal to negotiate, despite hundreds of thousands of people being forced from their homes by fighting.
Laurent Nkunda, a renegade general leading the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), had demanded direct talks with Kinshasa after government troops fled as his fighters [...]

A United Nations aid convoy is expected to arrive in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to help tens of thousands of people forced to flee a rebel offensive.
UN peacekeepers will escort the convoy to the town of Rutshuru on Monday, where at least 50,000 displaced people were thought to be hiding in the bush.
“Our priority [...]

The United Nations and the European Union are attempting to ensure that a shaky truce in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo holds.
The foreign ministers of Britain and France flew into DR Congo on Saturday for talks with Joseph Kabila, the president, after tens of thousands of people were displaced by fighting between [...]

Laurent Nkunda, the leader of the rebel group that has been advancing on the Democratic Republic of Congo’s city of Goma, has called for direct talks with the government.
The government has not yet responded to Nkunda’s request, but direct talks could build upon a ceasefire, which has halted much of the fighting in the country’s [...]

Tens of thousands of residents, refugees and government troops have fled the town of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, despite rebel forces declaring a ceasefire to prevent panic.
Troops loyal to Laurent Nkunda, a renegade army general, were on the outskirts of the provinvial capital of Nord-Kivu province on Thursday after government resistance appeared [...]