Namibian founding president Sam Nujoma is laid to rest and praised as the last African liberator
Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s founding president who steered the country to freedom from apartheid South Africa, was laid to rest in ...
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General Kagame’s War-Making Police State In Diplomatic Meltdown
If we lived in the Roman Empire two millennia ago, this last week in General Kagame’s life would have been described as horribilis hebdomadal– a horrible week. In a decisive move that underscores the ...
Global Voices Online8d
Eastern DRC: Civilian victims of renewed tensions between government and rebels
The city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has fallen into the hands of M23 rebels. Civilians are the ...
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UN Security Council demands rebels withdraw from captured DRC cities
The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution demanding that the M23 rebels in eastern Congo immediately cease ...
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Environmental & rights activists flee and hide as M23 captures DRC’s cities
Aerial view of Goma, Nord Kivu, DRC in November 2014. Image courtesy of MONUSCO Photos via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-NC 2.0).
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Congo-Kinshasa: Behind Names Like AFDL or M23 Lies the Rwandan Intervention in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo
It is not an internal conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but an external aggression ... Congo), RCD (Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie), CNDP (Congrès National pour la Défense du ...
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Rwanda-backed M23 rebels occupy a 2nd major city in Congo’s mineral-rich east
Congo’s communications ministry in a statement on social media acknowledged for the first time that Bukavu had been “occupied” and said the national government was ... the Democratic Forces for the ...
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M23 seize key city as fears of DR Congo breakup mount
Columns of M23 fighters allied with Rwandan troops on Sunday entered the centre of another key city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as ... Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR ...