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Kris Lees eyes breakthrough Hunter win with comeback horse Gem Song

Top Newcastle trainer Kris Lees has prepared the runner-up in the $1 million The Hunter at his home track in all three editions. Each time, his horse has been beaten between a length and a length and a half. And every time Lees has had four or five runners in…

Newcastle Herald

Meet the young Congolese joining up to fight the M23 rebel group

Hundreds of young people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are flocking to army recruiting centres and signing up after their president Felix Tshiesekedi called on the nation’s youth to help halt the advance of the March 23 Movement, a rebel military group that has been terrorising the eastern…

France 24

Kenya to spend $37 million on sending forces to Congo

Kenya’s parliament has approved the deployment of nearly 1,000 troops for a new regional force in eastern Congo amid questions about the $37 million cost for the first six months of the mission

The Independent UK

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How dash for African oil and gas could wipe out Congo basin tropical forests

Third of Congo basin’s tropical forests are under threat from fossil fuel investments, undermining climate action, report warns

The Guardian - UK

Leeton school teacher Mark Ciavarella missing in Republic of Congo

The family of Mark Ciavarella say it took more than a week for them to be informed of his disappearance.

ABC News

Congo expels Reuters reporter

Democratic Republic of Congo expelled a French journalist working for Reuters after her application for journalistic accreditation was not approved.

Reuters

DR Congo jets bomb M23 rebel targets in east, official says

Air strikes carried out after M23 rebels seize territory, displacing at least 90,000 people in the past month.

Al Jazeera

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Official: Congo war planes bombing M23 rebel targets

Congolese fighter jets have begun bombing rebel targets in the country’s embattled east as the military steps up its fight against the M23 group

The Independent UK

Congo trains 3,000 new army recruits amid Rwanda tensions

Congo's military says some 3,000 people have stepped forward to join the military's fight against M23 rebels in the country's east

The Independent UK

DR Congo violates Rwanda airspace in "provocation", government says

A fighter jet of the Democratic Republic of Congo's military violated Rwandan airspace on Monday, Rwanda's government said, calling the incident an act of provocation amid efforts to de-escalate tensions between the two neighbours.

Reuters

Congo and Rwanda hold talks to resolve conflict in eastern Congo

Officials from Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda held talks on Saturday aimed at ending a political stand-off between the two countries caused by widespread conflict near their shared border.

Reuters

In Africa's monkeypox outbreak, sickness and death go undetected, threatening more flare-ups across the continent and globally

At a village clinic in central Democratic Republic of Congo, six-year-old Angelika Lifafu grips her dress and screams as nurses treat the boils that trouble her delicate skin. She is one of the many victims of an outbreak there that is believed to be far worse than the official records…

ABC News

Last year's deforestation pledge is off to a slow start

One year after more than 140 countries pledged to halt all deforestation by 2030, little has been done to finance protections or pass new conservation laws, experts say.

Reuters

Kenya sends troops to DRC to join regional anti-rebel operation

Kenya's president said on Wednesday that his country is deploying troops to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to join a new operation against a rebel offensive.

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Kenya deploys troops to Congo to help end decades of bloodshed

Kenya's President William Ruto on Wednesday officially deployed troops to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to join an East African regional force aiming to end decades of bloodshed.

The Guardian - UK

‘Carbon timebomb’: climate crisis threatens to destroy Congo peatlands

Vast carbon store may be close to point where it could flip from absorbing CO2 to releasing it, research shows

The Independent UK

Angry crowds set fire to UN vehicles in eastern Congo

Angry crowds in eastern Congo have set fire to U.N. vehicles as frustrations mount over the advance of M23 rebels

France 24

Fighting in DRC's North Kivu leads to mass displacement of population

Intense fighting in DR Congo's North Kivu province is leading to major population displacement. We take a closer look. But first, Algeria hosts its first Arab League summit since the Covid-19 pandemic. Food security, political turmoil in Libya and Sudan and the Nile dam dispute are on the agenda. Finally,…

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UN peacekeepers in Congo make 'strategic withdrawal' from key military base

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday said its troops had made a strategic withdrawal from the eastern military base of Rumangabo, ceding ground in the battle against the M23 rebel group.

The Guardian - UK

Sale of oil and gas permits casts shadow over world’s second-largest rainforest

Villagers in the Congo basin rely on the forest for food, medicine and spiritual wellbeing, but an auction of exploration rights could threaten that way of life

The Guardian - UK

West accused of double standards over oil and gas exploration in DRC

Calls by countries such as UK and US to halt auction for drilling permits in the world’s second-largest rainforest branded ‘galling’

Reuters

Anti-Rwanda protests break out in east Congo as Kinshasa recalls envoy

Thousands joined anti-Rwanda protests in the east Congolese city of Goma on Monday, denouncing Rwanda's alleged support of M23 rebels as Kinshasa recalled its interim acting ambassador from Kigali in a further souring of relations.

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.

The Independent UK

Rwanda criticizes expulsion of its ambassador from Congo

Rwanda’s government is accusing neighboring Congo of escalating tensions between the two countries

Radio France Internationale

Endangered elephants ‘eavesdrop’ on poachers in Republic of the Congo

Critically endangered forest elephants use their acute senses of hearing and smell to detect poachers while they are still some distance away and well before they have fired a shot, a new study suggests.

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