The president of crisis-hit Democratic Republic of Congo was set to meet his Rwandan counterpart at an emergency summit on Wednesday, as fighters backed by Kigali appeared on the brink of seizing the key city of Goma. The M23 armed group took control of Goma’s airport on Tuesday, a security source said, following days of intense …
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Mona Ibrahim has already buried two of her children.In the span of just two months, the Sudanese mother watched helplessly as severe malnutrition killed her 10-year-old daughter, Rania, and her eight-month-old son, Montasir, in the famine-stricken Zamzam displacement camp.”I could only hold them as they faded away,” Ibrahim, 40, told AFP via video call, sitting …
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An armed group backed by Rwandan troops took control of the besieged Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma’s airport on Tuesday, a security source said, following three days of clashes that have killed more than 100 people.Nearly 1,000 have also been wounded, according to an AFP tally of tolls from Goma’s overflowing hospitals, in three …
The UN peacekeeping force in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has warned of the risk of ethnically motivated attacks as conditions deteriorate in the region, haunted by the legacy of the 1994 Rwanda genocide and its aftermath.The warning came as the M23 armed group backed by Rwandan troops took control of the airport in the besieged …
UN warns of ethnic attacks in eastern DR CongoTue, 28 Jan 2025 23:46:41 GMT Read More »
Thousands of people rallied in junta-led Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali on Tuesday to back their withdrawal from the Economic Community of West African States regional bloc, due to take effect Wednesday.The departure of these three founding members from the bloc has fractured the region and is leaving the ECOWAS grouping with an uncertain future.The three …
France waged a war marked by “extreme violence” during Cameroon’s fight for independence in the late 1950s, historians said in the latest officially commissioned study grappling with Paris’s colonial past released on Tuesday.The historians found that Paris implemented mass forced displacement, pushed hundreds of thousands of Cameroonians into internment camps and supported brutal militias to …
Vandalised embassies, looted supermarkets and piles of burning tyres marked chaotic demonstrations Tuesday in DR Congo’s capital Kinshasa to denounce the “inaction” of the international community over the conflict raging in Goma, the main city in the country’s east. On foot or on motorbikes, hundreds of angry demonstrators responding to the “Paralyse the City” call of …
Smoke, looting as day of rage targets Kinshasa embassiesTue, 28 Jan 2025 18:16:21 GMT Read More »
An armed group backed by Rwandan troops took control of the airport in the besieged DR Congo city of Goma on Tuesday, a security source said, dealing a major blow to Congolese forces and putting the eastern regional capital on the brink of falling.The main city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has become a …
Heavy artillery fire and bursts of automatic weapons resonated for endless hours. The streets of the eastern DR Congo city of Goma, where the Rwandan army and the M23 extended control in clashes with the Congolese army and its allies, were almost deserted Tuesday. The city centre, one of the eastern provincial capital’s most upscale neighbourhoods close …
After a ‘flood of fire’, Goma delivered to lootersTue, 28 Jan 2025 17:11:00 GMT Read More »
