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Rights group accuses M23 rebels of mass killings near DRC's Virunga National Park
Panapress
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August 20, 2025
20 august 2025 - 10:46:08 MA 202 Views Panafrican News Agency Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – The Rwandan-controlled M23 armed group summarily executed over 140 civilians, largely ethnic Hutu, in at least 14 villages and farming areas in July 2025, near...
Trump slams 'anti-American' pushback after fresh delay to Arizona copper mine
CNBC
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August 20, 2025
Coils, coiled copper wires, lie on pallets in the wire plant (coiler) at Aurubis AG. Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump has slammed an appeals court decision to temporarily block a land transfer needed...
Uganda says it has not struck a deal with Trump to take in US deportees
The Guardian
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August 20, 2025
Uganda said it has not reached any agreement with the US to take in undocumented immigrants, contradicting reports that the east African country had struck a deal with the Trump administration to do so. Henry Oryem Okello, Uganda’s state minister...
NIU Invest secures majority stake in Critical Metals
Global Mining Review
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August 20, 2025
Save to read list Published by Will Owen, Editor Global Mining Review, Wednesday, 20 August 2025 09:30 NIU Invest SE (NIU), headed by Austrian investor Cevdet Caner, has completed its acquisition of a majority stake in Critical Metals PLC by way...
DRC: Warring factions in eastern DRC commit horrific abuses including gang rapes, summary executions and abductions
Amnesty International
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August 20, 2025
Both the Rwanda-backed March 23 Movement (M23) and the Wazalendo, a loose coalition of armed groups backed by the Congolese army, have gang raped women and committed widespread human rights abuses against civilians in the eastern Democratic...
CAF Confirms Kenya’s Path to CHAN 2024 Final
Kenyans.co.ke
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August 20, 2025
Harambee Stars could still face Tanzania in the 2024 African Nations Championship after CAF released the official pathways to the final of the competition. The group stages concluded on Tuesday, August 19, reducing the number of participants from...
Trump, send your deportees to Europe not Africa
Al Jazeera
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August 20, 2025
On August 5, Rwanda announced it had agreed to accept 250 migrants under the Trump administration’s expanding third-country deportation programme. Speaking from Kigali, government spokesperson Yolande Makolo said Rwanda would retain the right to...
Rwanda-backed rebels massacre civilians in Congo
PerthNow
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August 20, 2025
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels killed at least 140 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in July, Human Rights Watch says. A report by the independent, non-governmental human rights organisation released on Wednesday highlights how violence...
Syrian President Meets with US Congressional Delegation in Damascus
Asharq Al-Awsat
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August 20, 2025
France and the United States are working on a plan to gradually end the mission of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) within 18 months, diplomats told Asharq Al-Awsat. The force, deployed in southern Lebanon since 1978, is facing...
World Reuters Rwanda-backed rebels massacred civilians in Congo, Human Rights Watch says
Yahoo News
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(Reuters) -Rwanda-backed M23 rebels killed at least 140 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in July, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Wednesday that highlighted how violence remains elevated despite the U.S.- and Qatar-backed...
Rwanda-backed rebels massacred civilians in Congo, Human Rights Watch says
The Gazette - Colorado
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(Reuters) -Rwanda-backed M23 rebels killed at least 140 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in July, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Wednesday that highlighted how violence remains elevated despite the U.S.- and Qatar-backed...
UN calls on stakeholders to protect humanitarian workers
Number One Citizen Daily
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August 20, 2025
Humanitarian Coordinator for South Sudan, Ms. Anita Kiki Gbeho (photo: Courtesy) By Lodu William Odiya The Humanitarian community has called on the South Sudan government and all stakeholders to protect and ensure the safety of civilians including...
DANGEROUS S. Sudan among unsafe places for Humanitarian workers-UN
Number One Citizen Daily
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August 20, 2025
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Health worker providing treatment to communities in Unity state (photo: MSF) By Lodu William Odiya The Humanitarian Coordinator for South Sudan, Anita Kiki Gbeho has warned that the young nation is among world...
Visa-Free policy would double Africa’s US$190 billion tourism revenue — Julius Debrah
The Herald Ghana
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August 20, 2025
The Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, has stressed the urgent need to dismantle barriers that prevent the free movement of people, goods, and services across the African continent. He insisted that the over US$190 billion generated annually from...
DR Congo: M23 Mass Killings Near Virunga National Park
Human Rights Watch
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August 20, 2025
The Rwandan-controlled M23 armed group summarily executed over 140 civilians in July 2025, largely ethnic Hutu, in at least 14 villages and small farming communities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The mass killings appear to be part of a...
ADF rebels kill 52 civilians in DRC
Observer
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August 20, 2025
The United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) has reported that Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels killed at least 52 civilians between August 9 and 16 in North Kivu Province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo....
Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Healthcare Providers on Antibiotics Use and Resistance in Hospital Settings in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Dove Medical Press
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August 12, 2025
Introduction An antibiotic is any chemical compound, derived from a living organism or produced synthetically, whose therapeutic activity is manifested at very low doses, specifically by inhibiting bacterial growth (bacteriostatic effect) or...
Trafigura-led consortium aims to finalise US loan deal by end-2025
Yahoo Finance
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By Nelson Banya (Reuters) -Lobito Atlantic Railway (LAR) aims to finalise by the end of this year a $533 million loan deal with the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) that is vital for the upgrade of its Angolan concession,...
From Cambodia to Iran: The six (or seven) wars Trump claims to have ended in six months
El País
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August 20, 2025
“I’ve solved six wars in six months.” That was U.S. President Donald Trump’s response to criticism of his role as mediator between Russia and Ukraine, just hours before receiving Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy and a delegation of European...
Best of Congo Sees Multiple 88+ Coffees, Auction Ends Friday
Daily Coffee News
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August 19, 2025
Daily Coffee News Staff | August 19, 2025 CAPCKI Cooperative. Image provided by Farm Africa Connect. Multiple coffees from the Democratic Republic of Congo surpassed 88 points at the second Best of Congo Cooperatives green coffee competition,...