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KINSHASA :Congo has stepped up security in the capital Kinshasa amid concerns about the safety of athletes taking part in the International Francophone Games starting this week, the government said on Tuesday.Around 4,500 additional police…

KINSHASA : Congo has stepped up security in the capital Kinshasa amid concerns about the safety of athletes taking part in the International Francophone Games starting this week, the government said.Around 4,500 additional police backed…

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Speaking from Kinshasa, Dr. Jorge Castilla, WHO’s Senior Emergency Officer, told journalists at the regular briefing in Geneva there had been a major increase in displacement due to ongoing violence fuelled by armed groups, leaving around…

KAMPALA (UGANDA): A bereaved Ugandan border town on Sunday prepared to bury victims of a brutal attack by suspected extremist rebels on a school that left 42 dead, most of them students, as security forces stepped up patrols along the…

KAMPALA: At least 41 people, including 38 students, have been killed in a suspected rebel attack on a school near the Congo border. Mayor of the Ugandan border town of Mpondwe says 41 bodies have been recovered.Police say the rebels from…

KAMPALA: Ugandan authorities recovered the bodies of 41 people, including 38 students, following an attack by suspected rebels on secondary school near the border with Congo, the local mayor said Saturday.The victims included the students,…

BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo — More than 40 civilians were killed on Monday when a militia attacked a camp for displaced people in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a local official and the head of a civil society…

Published By: Saurabh VermaLast Updated: June 12, 2023, 23:30 ISTCommunity leader Desire Malodra gave the same death toll of 46, adding that 23 of them were children. (Representative Image: Shutterstock)A militia group involved in…

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. Issued on:…