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At least 21 killed in attack on Congo church by ISIS-backed rebels

July 27, 2025 4:31 pm

Earlier this month, the group killed dozens of people in Ituri in what a United Nations spokesperson described as a bloodbath.

The World This Week: India refuses to sign SCO statement

The world this week | SCO silent on Pahalgam terror attack; uncertainty looms large amid tenuous Israel-Iran ceasefire; India, US hold final round of trade talks

July 06, 2025 9:26 am

From India refusing to sign the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s draft joint statement, and Iran hinting at suspending cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog to New Delhi and Washington seeking to finalise a trade deal ahead of the July 9 deadline, and Rwanda and Congo signing a peace deal, a lot has happened in the world this week.

Over 100 women raped, burnt alive during mass jailbreak in Congo

February 06, 2025 8:48 pm

Footage from the Congo jailbreak showed prisoners fleeing as smoke billowed in the background, with heavy gunfire ringing out.

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Why the spread of mpox is a concern and what caused the delay in vaccines reaching Africa

September 10, 2024 3:12 pm

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), epicentre of the global mpox outbreak, has received the first vaccines nearly a month after the WHO declared the infection a global health emergency. Why the delay? What vaccines are being used?

Pope appeals for an end to violence in eastern Congo

June 16, 2024 5:45 pm

"I appeal to national authorities and the international community to do everything possible to stop the violence and safeguard the lives of civilians," he said during his Sunday Angelus message.

25 civilians killed in militia attack in eastern Congo

April 07, 2024 10:50 pm

The Cooperative for the Development of the Congo (CODECO) group, one of many militias operating in the conflict-ridden east, carried out the killings.

Explained: The violent conflict in the DRC, in which two BSF personnel were killed

July 30, 2022 6:59 pm

Anti-UN protests had first begun in the city of Goma on Monday, before intensifying and spreading to Butempo the following day with multiple UN buildings targeted in both cities.

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India calls for UNSC meeting after attack on Indian and Moroccan peacekeepers in Congo

July 28, 2022 10:27 pm

Hours after the attack, India, currently a non-permanent member of the Security Council, called for a meeting of the Council under ‘Any Other Business' to discuss the situation.

Friends and relatives proud of two Indian peacekeepers killed in Congo

July 29, 2022 6:38 am

Deployed at Butembo since June 2, 2022, the peacekeepers were among five people killed during an anti-United Nations protest in Congo’s eastern city of Goma near the Uganda border.

Africa home to all of the world's top 10 neglected crises

June 02, 2022 3:32 pm

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the most neglected country on the list for the second year running, followed by Burkina Faso, Cameroon and South Sudan.

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Meet the activists fighting sexual violence who received the Nobel Peace Prize

June 22, 2020 6:14 pm

Nadia Murad, a survivor of sexual violence by the Islamic State, and Dr Denis Mukwege, a gynecological surgeon, were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their campaigns against the use of rape as a weapon of war.