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UN experts cast blame on Rwanda and Uganda. What are they doing in DRC?

M23 rebels take ‘instructions’ from Kigali, as Kampala ‘doubles’ army presence in DRC, says leaked report by UN experts.

Al Jazeera

‘It’s not our job to make photos that are easy to look at’: the female photographers exposing the cost of conflict in 2024

Hostilities are taking place in more than 170 locations across the globe and women are suffering the effects more than at any time since the second world war. Here, female photojournalists reveal personal stories of life under fire

The Guardian - UK

WHO declares mpox a global public health emergency

Officials say new fast-spreading variant has been detected in Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbouring countries.

Al Jazeera

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India’s Vinesh Phogat disqualified in Olympics, missed weight by 100 grams

Phogat had starved herself for a week, exercised and spent hours in the sauna to cut the extra kilos.

Al Jazeera

In Congo camp, Muslims celebrate Eid with much-needed food aid

Young Muslims go from tent to tent at a camp for displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, their arms laden with bags of rice, beans and fish, gifts to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

Reuters

Conflict in eastern Congo forces thousands of schools to close

Thomas Tumusifu Buregeya wishes he were studying for his final school exams. Instead, he scrapes a living doing odd jobs in a displaced people's camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after a wave of rebel violence upended his life yet again.

Reuters

Congo leader Felix Tshisekedi urges France's Emmanuel Macron to back sanctions against Rwanda

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi urges visiting French President Emmanuel Macron to pursue international sanctions against Rwanda for its alleged military support to M23 rebels.

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Congo registers voters in unstable eastern province

Democratic Republic of Congo's electoral commission started registering voters this week in North Kivu province, where a rebel insurgency has raised concerns about the state's ability to hold elections there in December.

Reuters

Congolese army says rebels massacred 50 civilians in eastern town

Democratic Republic of Congo's armed forces on Thursday said M23 rebels and their allies killed 50 civilians in a massacre in the eastern town of Kishishe this week, which the M23 denied.

Reuters

Protesters in Goma reject east Congo ceasefire agreement

Hundreds marched in Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern city of Goma on Thursday to protest against an agreement between African leaders to stop attacks by M23 rebels, saying it does not tackle Rwanda's alleged backing of the group.

Reuters

In Africa's monkeypox outbreak, sickness and death go undetected

At a village clinic in central Congo, separated from the world by a tangle of waterways and forests, six-year-old Angelika Lifafu grips her dress and screams as nurses in protective suits pick at one of hundreds of boils that trouble her delicate skin.

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