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Rwanda, Congo Sign Historic Peace Deal
Foreign Policy
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Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at a Rwanda-Congo peace deal, U.S. President Donald Trump’s legal win, and anti-LGBTQ+ policies in Hungary. ‘Turning Point’ Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo signed a landmark...
Health system "on brink of collapse" in eastern DR Congo, warns Red Cross
Xinhua News Agency
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KINSHASA, June 17 (Xinhua) -- The health system in the Kivu region of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is "on the brink of collapse," the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned Tuesday, citing the combined impact...
La Prospérité Failed To Critique New Congo Opposition’s Pledges
Media Observer
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June 23, 2025
The Democratic Republic of Congo is in a general state of flux. Battered by a buffet of challenges, including a long history of weak central governments, wanton poverty amidst plenty, and attacks from various rebel groups – especially in the...
He was killed in the DRC for standing up to corruption. Now this young martyr is on the path to sainthood.
America Magazine
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June 25, 2025
You may not have heard the name of Blessed Floribert Bwana Chui, who was beatified on Sunday, June 15, in Rome, but it is likely you can identify with his struggle. At the Sant’Egidio African Easter Congress in 2002, he said: Prayer is...
Kigali Declaration Fuels Africa’s Fight Against Neglected Tropical Diseases
Africa.com
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June 23, 2025
Africa’s fight against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) is gaining ground, with over 80 countries and organizations uniting under the Kigali Declaration to tackle these debilitating conditions. Marking its third anniversary on June 23, 2025, the...
UNICEF seeks urgent funding as over 136,000 flee DRC to Burundi, Uganda
Independent (Uganda)
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June 24, 2025
Refugees in Uganda KINSHASA, DRC | Xinhua | More than 136,000 people have fled escalating violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since January, seeking refuge in neighboring Burundi and Uganda, the United Nations Children’s...
UNICEF seeks urgent funding as over 136,000 flee DR Congo to Burundi, Uganda
Xinhua News Agency
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KINSHASA, June 23 (Xinhua) -- More than 136,000 people have fled escalating violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since January, seeking refuge in neighboring Burundi and Uganda, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)...
UNICEF Seeks Urgent Funding As Over 136,000 Flee Congo To Burundi And Uganda
MENAFN
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June 23, 2025
(MENAFN- IANS) Kinshasa, June 23 (IANS) More than 136,000 people have fled escalating violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since January, seeking refuge in neighbouring Burundi and Uganda, the United Nations Children's...
Defusing The Next Carbon Bomb: The Fight to Stop Big Oil In Congo
Resilience
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June 19, 2025
A young climate and human rights defender from the Democratic Republic of Congo discusses how a growing coalition is working to prevent the detonation of a massive carbon bomb and the plunder of communities – and how you can help. The Democratic...
Mahama (Rwanda): Congolese Refugees Quietly Return to Rebel-Controlled DRC
Sos Médias Burundi
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SOS Médias Burundi Mahama, June 18, 2025 — Since the M23 rebel group and its affiliated politico-military coalition, the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC), seized control of key cities in North and South Kivu in eastern DRC, a discreet yet growing wave...
Over 130,000 newly displaced in DR Congo's North Kivu Province in May: UN
Xinhua News Agency
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KINSHASA, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Ongoing armed violence in North Kivu Province in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) displaced more than 130,000 people in May, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)...
Navigating the future: The significance of World Population Day in a changing world
The Times of India
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July 11, 2025
Every year on July 11th, the global community observes World Population Day, a United Nations initiative established in 1989 to draw attention to the urgency and importance of population issues. As we step into the third decade of the 21st...
'Africa must free itself from economic dependence' — Dr. Jos...
Modern Ghana
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Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong, Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies, has issued a bold call for African investors and entrepreneurs to take charge of the continent’s economic liberation. Speaking to the Modern Ghana News Network, he...
How A Liberian School is Transforming Lives Through Education
Africa.com
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July 7, 2025
From Hunger to Hope: A Mission to Educate and Feed the Next Generation In the heart of Moses Town, along Liberia’s Marshall Highway, a transformative movement is unfolding. The Success New Destiny International School System, spearheaded by the...
Seedtime Economic Empowerment & Development Initiative Africa (SEED Africa): Empowering Social Entrepreneurs to Transform the Continent
Africa.com
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July 8, 2025
Across Africa, innovative thinkers are tackling challenges from poverty to climate change with bold, community-driven solutions. But many lack the resources and support needed to bring their ideas to life. That’s where SEED Africa comes in. SEED...
Dhaka’s air turns ‘unhealthy for sensitive groups’ after long time
United News of Bangladesh
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Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked ninth on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 10 at 9:15 am this morning (July 11, 2025). Today Dhaka’s air was classified as ‘unhealthy for sensitive...
Concerns grow over human rights breaches as Ireland ramps up refugee deportations
Irish Examiner
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June 27, 2025
One human rights activist disappeared from the airport when he was returned to his home country, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), from Ireland in recent weeks. His father, an opposition politician, had been murdered, and when he was also...
Bavarian Nordic begins mpox vaccine trial in pregnant women and infants
Clinical Trials Arena
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June 26, 2025
Bavarian Nordic has initiated two Phase III clinical trials of its mpox vaccine, Jynneos, in pregnant and breastfeeding women, as well as infants aged under two years. The first infants have been dosed in one Phase III study (NCT06844487), which...
Remembering Patrice Lumumba, African anti-colonial leader assassinated by Belgium and CIA
People's World
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July 3, 2025
Patrice Lumumba in Leopoldville, which later became Kinshasa, 1960 July 2 marked the centenary of the birth of the Congolese independence leader Patrice Emery Lumumba, the first democratically-elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of...
Major Rwandan coltan exporter bought smuggled Congolese minerals, UN report says
Yahoo News
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By Reade Levinson, David Lewis and Sonia Rolley , REUTERS -Rwandan company Boss Mining Solution bought minerals smuggled from rebel-held areas of neighboring Congo, helping fund an insurgency in that vast African country, according to a...