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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 …

Thousands rally in Burkina, Mali and Niger to cheer ECOWAS exitTue, 28 Jan 2025 18:54:49 GMT Read More »

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 …

France responsible for ‘extreme violence’ in Cameroon independence war, report saysTue, 28 Jan 2025 18:18:17 GMT Read More »

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 …

DRC’s Goma on the brink as Rwanda-backed fighters take airportTue, 28 Jan 2025 17:28:09 GMT Read More »

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 »

Their country’s war rarely tops global news bulletins, and Sudan has never had a film at Sundance before.So the makers of documentary “Khartoum” carried their national flag with pride and a sense of deep responsibility to their premiere at the influential US movie festival on Monday.”The film is acting as an ambassador,” said Ibrahim Snoopy …

Proud Sudan filmmakers bring message of war and hope to SundanceTue, 28 Jan 2025 16:10:05 GMT Read More »

Goma, the main city in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s volatile east, is set to fall to the M23 armed group and Rwandan army — the latest upheaval in a region devastated by three decades of war.- Who is on the offensive? -The blitzkrieg on Goma has been led by Rwandan soldiers and the M23 …

War-battered eastern DRC ravaged by new conflictTue, 28 Jan 2025 16:07:10 GMT Read More »

Clutching their possessions in a chilly field, Congolese refugees told AFP on Tuesday they had no option but to flee to Rwanda as militias and the DR Congo military used bombs in a battle over the regional capital Goma.Home to more than one million people, Goma has been repeatedly targeted in decades-old clashes between state …

‘Not safe anymore’: Congolese flee violence to RwandaTue, 28 Jan 2025 14:07:10 GMT Read More »

The UN on Tuesday said the humanitarian situation in the besieged DR Congo city of Goma was “extremely worrying” amid mass displacement, food shortages, looted aid, overflowing hospitals and widespread sexual violence.Aid agencies warned that attacks on water and electricity infrastructure could fuel deadly infectious diseases like cholera, adding that fighting around a local laboratory …

Humanitarian situation in DRC’s Goma ‘extremely worrying’: UNTue, 28 Jan 2025 14:02:34 GMT Read More »