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Congo’s government has described the unilateral ceasefire declared by Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern Congo as “false communication,” while the United Nations on Tuesday noted reports of heavy fighting with Congolese forces in the region

The United States has frozen its financial contributions to a multinational security support mission in Haiti, a United Nations spokesperson said on Tuesday, a move that would stop $13.3 million in pending aid.

The website for the United States Agency for International Development (USAid), the world’s biggest aid donor, has gone dark.

Editorial: The junta’s brutality has failed to secure victory in the civil war, but is devastating the country

The first US flights carrying detained migrants to America's notorious Guantanamo military base in Cuba were underway Tuesday as President Donald Trump's administration cracks down on illegal migration, the White House said.

The armed group M23 has declared a humanitarian "ceasefire" starting this Tuesday in the volatile eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, while a crisis meeting between Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame is also being arranged for Friday.

Prof James Hansen says pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, though other scientists disagree

The head of the U.N. atomic watchdog says he will visit Moscow in the coming days to speak with officials about Russia’s persistent attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure which threaten nuclear safety

Team Africa Rising recently supplied a local club with Zwift and Wahoo indoor training equipment

A full 1,000 days since Israel killed Shireen Abu Akleh, no one has been held accountable despite efforts for justice.

In a major escalation in the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), rebels from the March 23 Movement – or M23 – have seized Goma, the capital city of North Kivu province. At least 773 people have been killed there since the M23 claimed to have…