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Lose track of time with Belgium’s 2025 stamps
Belgium's 2025 stamps usher in the fourth year of cataloguing the country's extensive program. This all started innocently enough in 2021, with a project to ...
Congo losses expose limit of South Africa's diplomatic ambitions
South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the ...
The New York Times6d
A Conflict in Congo
Critical minerals factor into the fight. By Ruth Maclean Rebels backed by Rwanda are seizing huge tracts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Their progress has been swift and stunning.
The New York Times9d
U.S. Citizens Advised to Evacuate Congo Amid Attacks on Embassies
By Elian Peltier and Justin Makangara Reporting from Dakar, Senegal, and Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. The United States on Tuesday advised U.S. nationals to leave the Democratic ...
As M23 rebel group advances in Congo, a new leader signals a shift in its identity
After Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took control of the biggest city in eastern Congo this week, the man who emerged from the shadows to assert his leadership was not the group's long-time military leader.
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DR Congo’s president says country won’t be humiliated after rebels claim takeover
Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has vowed “a vigorous and coordinated response” against a rebel alliance that has besieged swathes of the nation’s mineral-rich east ...
Reuters4d
Congo's displaced fear violence, rape if they return home
LAC VERT, Democratic Republic of Congo, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Widow Francine Nsengiyumva and her three children have little to eat and sleep on the hard ground, but like many others at a makeshift ...
Business Daily Africa8d
Airlines and traders face economic turbulence on armed clashes in Goma
UN truck drivers and civilians who fled from Goma, eastern DR Congo following fighting between M23 rebels and DRC Army react at the border-post as they are received by authorities in Gisenyi ...
Catholic News Agency3d
As fighting rages on in Eastern DR Congo, Catholic charity steps up humanitarian response
Amid the escalation of violence, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) has scaled up humanitarian response in Goma, a city in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
CNN8d
Violence erupts in mineral-rich DR Congo as rebels move into key city. Here’s what we know
A rebel alliance claimed the capture of the biggest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich eastern region this week, pushing back against resistance from government troops ...
The Boston Globe7d
Rwanda-backed rebels take more towns as they expand control after seizing east Congo’s largest city
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rebels backed by Rwanda captured more towns in eastern Congo on Wednesday as they moved beyond the key city of Goma in an apparent attempt to expand their control in the ...
Al Jazeera English24d
DR Congo says several towns recaptured from rebels, but fighting persists
Several towns that fell to armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been recaptured by government forces, according to the Congolese army. The Armed Forces of the ...