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Heavy gunfire at Kinshasa airport, military HQ
Kinshasa (AFP) - Heavy gunfire erupted in several areas of the Congolese capital Kinshasa on Monday, including the international airport and the military headquarters, causing panic among…
Additional peacekeepers arrive in S. Sudan
The first group of UN peacekeeping reinforcements has arrived in South Sudan’s capital Juba. The 72 Bangladeshi peacekeepers have come from the Democratic Republic of Congo where they were stationed. They are the first of…
South Sudan: Rebels Killed Children
18-year-old Jal Lamu, a South Sudan pupil has narrated his ordeal explaining why they were forced to flee from the UN compound in Juba by the rebel forces. Children at the UN…
UN Choppers Bomb ADF Rebels In DRC By: Brian Kwesiga
The Congolese government forces backed by the UN intervention brigade helicopters have taken over Kamango town from the Ugandan rebel group Allied Democratic Forces-ADF. Drones like these will be used…
Machar’s Forces Take Upper Nile Capital, Malakal
Reports from South Sudan indicate that former vice president, Riek Machar’s rebel forces have now taken the Upper Nile capital, Malakal. Machar's armies have now taken another town, Malakal in the Upper…
Imitwe Ya Politiki Nidashyira Hamwe Kagame Azakomeza Atugaraguze Agati
Ntakintu kibabaza nkokubona ibiriho hirya no hino kw’isi muriki gihe noneho ukareba nibiriho mu Rwanda, I wacu I rwanda usanga bamwe mu baturage bashimishwa n’ibiriho ndetse bakumva ko ngo ibyo…
Sudan: Machar hits at UPDF over raids
Some of the Ugandans who were evacuated by the UPDF from the troubled South Sudan capital, Juba, board a bus from Entebbe International Airport to Kampala on Saturday. The UPDF maintain their…
‘Museveni’ Meets ‘Kagame’ At Ug-Rwanda Night (Mimicking)
Ug Rwanda night revelers were on Wednesday excited when comedians rocked the stage to mimic Paul Kagame and Yoweri Museveni. ‘Museveni’ meets ‘Kagame’ at the Ug Rwanda night. (Photo: Godfrey Male) The ‘Presidents’…
Victoire Ingabire: the woman who challenged Rwanda’s Paul Kagame
December 16, 2013 by Ann Garrison Victoire Ingabire, with the shaved head and pink uniform of Rwandan prisoners, gave her usual thumbs-up salute and urged her supporters not to be…
FREEDOM IN THE WORLD: Rwanda
Rwanda’s civil liberties rating declined from 5 to 6 due to numerous documented cases of unlawful detention, torture, and ill-treatment of civilians by military intelligence agents in secret…