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Congo violence prompts move of Bolivia’s UN troops

By Associated Press
Monday, November 17, 2008 -
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LA PAZ, Bolivia - Bolivia’s U.N. peacekeeping troops in Congo are being relocated for safety and another South American nation is reviewing its own mission’s security in the Central African country.

Bolivia’s state news agency reports Monday that the country’s detachment of 130 soldiers was moved on Sunday to a new base outside the eastern provincial capital of Goma because of threats against their previous base near the city of Bukavu.

 
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