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World
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Africa
6/1/2023 11:36:11 AM
East Africa's leaders have agreed to extend until September the mandate of a regional military force deployed to quell violence in the strife-torn east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Sports
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Africa
5/30/2023 1:20:27 PM
Congolese stopper Chancel Mbemba was named the French league's African player of the year on Tuesday, marking the first time the award has gone to a defender.
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World
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Africa
5/26/2023 3:50:58 PM
China and the Democratic Republic of Congo will strengthen their partnership and step up cooperation, Beijing said Friday, as talks over renegotiating mining contracts for the African country's valuable mineral reserves continue.
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World
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Africa
5/21/2023 7:49:14 PM
A delegation of six African leaders set to hold talks with Kyiv and Moscow aim to “initiate a peace process," but also broach the thorny issue of how a heavily-sanctioned Russia can be paid for the fertilizer exports Africa desperately needs, a key mediator who helped broker the talks said in an interview with The Associated Press.
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World
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Africa
5/8/2023 4:58:01 PM
Nearly 400 villagers were killed in flooding and landslides brought by torrential rains in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), said Theo Ngwabije Kasi, the governor of South Kivu province, on Monday.
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World
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Africa
5/6/2023 9:06:00 PM
The death toll from flash floods and landslides in Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to 203, as more bodies are recovered, an administrative official said on Saturday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/6/2023 5:16:15 PM
The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed its deep condolences to the Democratic Republic of the Congo following devastating floods caused by heavy rains in South Kivu province.
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World
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Africa
5/6/2023 5:01:35 PM
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday urged African leaders to redouble efforts to bring peace to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where violent armed groups have terrorized civilians for decades.
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World
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Africa
5/5/2023 5:14:17 PM
Rescue efforts were underway after flooding and landslides brought on by torrential overnight rains in eastern Congo's South Kivu province killed more than a dozen people, a local official said Friday.
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World
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Africa
4/12/2023 4:18:41 PM
Fresh clashes with M23 rebels erupted Wednesday near the eastern DR Congo city of Goma, according to officials, rupturing weeks of relative calm in the troubled region.
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World
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Africa
4/9/2023 3:12:32 PM
Around 20 people have been killed in an attack in eastern DR Congo, with sources blaming rebels affiliated with the Islamic State jihadist group.
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World
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Africa
4/5/2023 2:52:41 PM
A regional military force deployed to stabilize the conflict-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is raising suspicions about the role neighboring countries are playing.
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World
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Africa
4/4/2023 1:08:01 PM
East African regional forces have regained control of Bunagana, a strategic town in eastern Congo that had been held by M23 rebels for more than nine months, a spokesman for the regional force said Monday.
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World
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Africa
4/3/2023 11:47:16 AM
A falling local currency, salary arrears payments and war spending have pushed up prices in impoverished Democratic Republic of Congo, leaving locals struggling to afford basics.
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World
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Africa
3/31/2023 4:04:03 PM
Ugandan troops operating as part of an East African regional military force entered the east DR Congo border town of Bunagana on Friday, an army officer and witnesses said.
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World
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Africa
3/30/2023 4:33:52 PM
Food aid rations for refugees in Burundi, mostly Congolese fleeing violence in eastern DR Congo, will be halved from April 1, the World Food Programme (WFP) announced Thursday, citing a lack of funding.
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World
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Africa
3/29/2023 5:36:38 PM
Rampant insecurity in eastern DR Congo is having a devastating impact on education, the United Nations said on Wednesday, interrupting schooling for nearly 750,000 children in the turbulent region.
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World
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Africa
3/27/2023 12:37:17 AM
A notorious militia in eastern DR Congo on Sunday executed 17 people it took hostage the previous day, local sources said.
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World
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Africa
3/14/2023 3:20:23 PM
Another failed ceasefire, a UN call for talks nobody seems to want, and a new influx of foreign soldiers: despite a flurry of diplomatic efforts there appears little chance a fresh insurgency in eastern DR Congo will stop any time soon.
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World
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Africa
3/12/2023 2:54:35 PM
Suspected ADF militants on Sunday killed at least 17 people in eastern DR Congo, local officials, only days after the Islamist-aligned group conducted another massacre in the troubled region.
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