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U.N. council approves increase in Congo peacekeepers (Reuters)

Posted on 20 November 2008 by News Trigger

A Congolese woman carries some of her belongings towards the North Kivu town of Kayna. Fighting has broken out between Laurent Nkunda's rebel force and pro-government militia in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo.(AFP/Roberto Schmidt)Reuters - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Thursday to send some 3,000 additional U.N. peacekeepers to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to help prevent a new war in the country’s east.

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