Élisabethville served as the capital and centre of the secessionist independent state of Katanga during the 1960-1963 Congolese civil war.

The operation would be the largest the United Nations has undertaken since the Congolese civil war in the early 1960's and is expected to cost more than $200 million a year.

Privately, Mr. Bush pressed Mr. Museveni on Uganda's involvement in the Congolese civil war, according to a senior administration official.

According to legend, among them was Aqualtune, a former Angolan princess and general enslaved during a Congolese war.

He is a former rebel leader who was backed by Uganda during the 1998-2002 Congolese civil war.

The International Rescue Committee has estimated that 3.3 million people have been killed during the Congolese war, in fighting, massacres and famine and disease.

Calls for international attention to this newly virulent killing ground in the Congolese wars escalated today.

In the Congolese civil war, civilian aircraft had been routinely shot down by all sides.

During the Congolese civil war in the 1960s, reports of widespread cannibalism and other atrocities shocked the Western world.

She survived rape and trial during the Congolese civil war in 1964 because of the intervention of the villagers she had helped previously.