NAIROBI (Reuters) – Uganda will attack the town of Bunia in neighbouring eastern Congo unless “all forces” there surrender their arms within 24 hours, the chief of Ugandan defence forces, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, said in a post on X on Saturday. Kainerugaba, who has a history of posting provocative comments on foreign policy, said he …
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – African leaders chose Djibouti’s Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf to chair the African Union commission on Saturday at a summit dominated by fears of the Congo war widening into a regional conflict, the country’s finance minister said. In a post on the X platform Djibouti’s economy and finance minister, Ilyas Dawaleh, …
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(This Feb. 13 story has been refiled to clarify the reason for programme stop in paragraph 22) By Maggie Michael, Nafisa Eltahir and Khalid Abdelaziz CAIRO/DUBAI (Reuters) – Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces have attacked the famine-stricken Zamzam displacement camp, residents and medics say, as the paramilitary tries to tighten its grip on its Darfur stronghold …
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(Reuters) -Rwandan-backed M23 rebels entered eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s second-largest city Bukavu on Friday, a rebel leader told Reuters, as residents reported seeing the militants in the streets of a northern district. Earlier on Friday, the Congolese army confirmed that M23 fighters had taken control of Kavumu airport, north of Bukavu, and that Congolese …
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(Reuters) – A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck central Ethiopia on Friday, multiple earthquake monitoring agencies said. The earthquake struck near Ethiopia’s largest and most populous region, Oromiya with a population of nearly half a million, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The temblor was shallow, at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the …
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(Reuters) – Rebels in eastern Congo entered the provincial capital of Bukavu on Friday evening and will continue operations there on Saturday, Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Congo River Alliance (AFC), which includes the M23 rebels, told Reuters. (Writing by Alessandra Prentice; Editing by Leslie Adler)
(Reuters) -Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa’s great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards the second-biggest city in the area, Bukavu. The latest fighting is part of a major escalation of a conflict over power, identity and resources dating back …
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By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. refugee agency voiced concern at the “rapidly deteriorating” situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, saying the war had left around 350,000 displaced people with no roof over their heads. Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seized eastern Congo’s largest city of Goma last month and have …
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By Portia Crowe SEGOU, Mali (Reuters) – Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an annual festival coloured this year by political shifts roiling West Africa. Tens of thousands of people from Mali and elsewhere in the region flock each …
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(Reuters) – Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have reached the strategic Kavumu airport that services Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, three sources told Reuters on Friday. A spokesperson for the rebel alliance said on a post on X that the rebels were in control of the airport and surrounding …
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