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HRW warns Rwanda-backed M23 executing DR Congo civilians | World News

HRW warns Rwanda-backed M23 executing DR Congo civilians (AP) KINSHASA: The Rwanda-backed M23 militia has carried out “mass killings” of Congolese civilians in the occupied eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned on Tuesday.With Rwanda’s support, M23 fighters have seized swathes of the DRC’s resource-rich east, capturing the key city of Goma […]

Congo’s coltan miners dig for world’s tech; struggle regardless who is in charge

RUBAYA: Nestled in the green hills of Masisi territory in Congo, the artisanal Rubaya mining site hums with the sound of generators, as hundreds of men labour by hand to extract coltan, a key mineral crucial for producing modern electronics and defence technology, and fiercely sought after worldwide.Rubaya lies in the heart of eastern Congo, […]

Floods in eastern DR Congo kill more than 100: Local officials

Representative Image (AI-generated) Raging floods rushing through a village during the night killed more than 100 people, many of them children as they slept, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, local officials told AFP on Saturday.The floods were sparked by torrential rains and ripped through the Kasaba village in the Sud […]

Prince Harry-linked charity African Parks admits to human rights abuses in Congo

African Parks, a non-profit organisation that manages protected areas in Africa, has admitted to human rights abuses under its watch in the Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the Republic of the Congo, reported New York Post. The charity, which had Prince Harry as its president until 2023 and still counts him as a board member, acknowledged […]

South Africa says its peacekeeping troops are withdrawing from rebel-held eastern Congo

Representative Image (AI-generated) CAPE TOWN: The South African armed forces said Thursday they had begun withdrawing their peacekeeping troops from rebel-controlled eastern Congo. The South African National Defense Force said the troops began moving out earlier this week and would travel through neighboring Rwanda to Tanzania and fly home from there. Peacekeeping troops from Malawi […]

Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, 83, Dies; African Scholar Challenged the West

Mr. Mudimbe was unapologetic. “To the question ‘what is Africa?’ or ‘how to define African cultures?’ one today cannot but refer to a body of knowledge in which Africa has been subsumed by Western disciplines such as anthropology, history, theology or whatever other scientific discourse,” he told Callaloo. “And this is the level on which […]

At least 143 killed in DR Congo boat fire, dozens still missing

At least 143 people have died and dozens remain missing after a fuel-laden boat caught fire on the Congo River in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday, officials said Friday. “A first group of 131 bodies were found on Wednesday, with a further 12 fished out on Thursday and Friday. Several of them are […]