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The environmental toll of the M23 conflict in eastern DRC (Analysis)
Mongabay
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March 7, 2025
The escalating armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has had significant — and overlooked — environmental impacts. The rate of tree cover loss in Kahuzi-Biega and Virunga National Parks has sharply increased since the conflict...
The World and Everything in It: July 24, 2025
World - North Carolina
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July 24, 2025
Editor's note: The following text is a transcript of a podcast story. To listen to the story, click on the arrow beneath the headline above. MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning! State attorneys general urge the NCAA to restore fairness in women’s...
Crisis deepens but Texas Baptists send aid to east Congo
The Baptist Standard - Texas
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March 6, 2025
The humanitarian crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo grows worse, but Texas Baptists are responding to needs there. In a message to Mark Heavener, director of Texas Baptists’ Intercultural Ministries, Pastor Manassee Ngendahayo of...
DR Congo: rebel leader says sanctions deal with US won't stop fighting
Ver Angola
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"We will fight like we have nothing to lose to secure the future of our country," Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Congo River Alliance that includes the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group, told The Associated Press in an interview. Nangaa and other...
M23 defends raid on hospitals in Goma city
Independent (Uganda)
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March 6, 2025
M23 in charge of Goma Kanyuka argues that the M23 fighters did not raid but conducted a peaceful operation against 130 Armed Forces of Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) soldiers who were hiding in hospitals. Goma, DRC | THE INDEPENDENT | The...
DRC and WHO strengthen cooperation against Mpox
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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January 21, 2025
DRC Minister of Health Roger Kamba met with Deputy Director-General and Deputy Executive Director of the WHO Emergencies Programme, Chikwe Ihekweazu, to discuss the importance of a global and coordinated approach. Both sides called for effective...
COMMENT: Is a unity government a plausible remedy for DRC conflict?
The Chronicle (Zimbabwe)
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March 6, 2025
Richard Muponde, Zimpapers Politics Hub THE crisis in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) needs President Felix Tshisekedi to call for an all-inclusive dialogue involving all warring parties and political formations in the...
Bishops express concern Congo’s war could unravel into a regional conflict
Crux Now
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March 4, 2025
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – As the conflict continues to ravage the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa (ACEAC) has issued a stark warning about the real possibility of the violence...
Concern as mystery disease kills over 50 people in DRC
The Standard
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Grungy photo of feet with toe tag on a morgue table.[Courtesy] For the past eight weeks, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been more than just a war zone. Amid ongoing violence, where civilians are being killed and women and children...
DR Congo rebels have abducted hospital patients –UN
Daily News Tanzania
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March 4, 2025
DR CONGO: According to an OHCHR spokesperson, the M23 accuses the captives of belonging the national army, with whom they have been involved in clashes. At least 130 sick and wounded men have been abducted from two hospitals in the Democratic...
Pope Francis marks 12 remarkable years leading the Catholic Church from his hospital room
America Magazine
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March 13, 2025
Today, March 13, marks the 12th anniversary of the election of Pope Francis as the 265th successor of St. Peter. As he enters the 13th year of his ministry as bishop of Rome, Francis is not in the Vatican; he is instead a patient in Rome’s Gemelli...
DR Congo and rebels to begin peace talks
Daily News Tanzania
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March 13, 2025
DR CONGO: Peace talks between the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) and M23 rebels will begin on March 18, Angola announced on Wednesday, as it attempts to mediate a long-term ceasefire in the conflict-torn Central...
Travel + Leisure Readers Rank Minor Hotels Among the World’s Best in 2025 Awards
Africa.com
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July 14, 2025
African excellence recognised: Kilindi Zanzibar named continent’s top resort JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 14 July 2025-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Minor Hotels, a global hotel owner and operator with more than 560 properties across six...
Rwanda-backed rebels push into a mineral-rich town in Congo despite ceasefire calls
Imperial Valley Press - California
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GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed M23 rebels battling Congo’s army captured another strategic town in the country's mineral-rich east, residents and insurgents said Thursday, despite ceasefire calls this week by the Congolese and Rwandan...
Humanitarian crisis worsens in eastern Congo
The Baptist Standard - Texas
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February 28, 2025
Conditions continue to worsen dramatically in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where 25.5 million people face the danger of hunger, a Baptist leader there said. In a series of recent emails to the Baptist Standard, Léon Lepamabila,...
Another mystery disease outbreak in DR Congo: What we know
Deutsche Welle
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February 28, 2025
Another mystery disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has emerged in recent weeks, resulting in at least 60 deaths, officials say. It follows a similar event in September 2024, referred to as "Disease X" before the World Health...
Third International Health Regulations Emergency Committee meeting addresses mpox upsurge
Medical News
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March 18, 2025
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) is hereby transmitting the report of the third meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) Emergency Committee (Committee) regarding the upsurge of mpox 2024, held on...
Mpox outbreak hits Kabare amid ongoing conflict in DRC
Africanews
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March 8, 2025
The town of Kabare, located in South Kivu province, is currently grappling with a severe outbreak of Mpox, a disease primarily transmitted through close skin-to-skin contact. As the situation unfolds, healthcare workers continue to provide...
Deadly illness in Congo may be malaria, health officials say
KFGO - North Dakota
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February 27, 2025
By Ange Kasongo KINSHASA (Reuters) – A condition that has killed at least 50 people in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo this month is suspected to be malaria or food poisoning, local health officials said on Thursday. At least 943 people...
Mystery illness in Congo kills more than 50, health officials investigate
Straight Arrow News
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February 26, 2025
A mysterious illness has killed at least 53 people in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, prompting urgent investigations by health officials. The outbreak began in January and has spread rapidly across multiple villages with symptoms...