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As fighting rages on in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, war victims continue to flock to the Bethesda Hospital Surgery Centre in Goma. Since the first M23 rebel uprising, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has run an operating room at the centre to provide free treatment for the wounded. This weekend, there… Read More

The Netherlands kicked off their 2022 World Cup campaign with a 2-0 win over the African champions Senegal in Group A on Monday. Eredivisie top scorer Cody Gakpo headed home in the 84th minute on his World Cup debut and Davy Klaassen struck deep into injury time to give the Oranje a crucial win. Ecuador and Netherlands are now joint… Read More

Kenyan President William Ruto says a new East African Community force will ‘impose’ peace on warring groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. He was speaking after holding talks with his Congolese counterpart, Felix Tshisekedi, while on a one-day official visit to the DRC amid efforts to try to bring peace to the country. ‘There are a lot of… Read More

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has said that nearly 150,000 children displaced by the conflict in Mali do not have birth certificates and are at risk of exclusion and disenfranchisement because they cannot prove their identity. “Thousands of children are excluded from society when they should be in school,” said Maclean Natugasha, NRC’s director for Mali, in a statement released… Read More

Senegal’s players attended a training session at Al Thumama stadium in Doha on November 20, on the eve of the Qatar 2022 World Cup football match against the Netherlands. The squad and the coach of Africa’s reigning champions had to come to terms with the absence of star winger Sadio Mané and find a new strategy to realize their ambitions… Read More

Polling stations closed in Equatorial Guinea on Sunday (Nov. 20), to begin the counting of the votes. Millions of voters were expected to cast their ballots for the presidential, legislative and municipal elections. According to some members of the voting centre, the day was calm and without incidents, with high participation of people in the elections, while the opposition has… Read More

“We’re screwed,” said Alphonse Fwamba Mutombo, standing on a plot of rubble overlooking an open-cast cobalt mine in Kolwezi, southeastern DR Congo. His had once been a thriving neighbourhood of neat houses and tree-shaded avenues. Today his cherished home is surrounded by the wreckage of demolished houses, separated from the sprawling pit by a concrete barrier. The Chinese-owned mine wants… Read More

The United Nations COP27 climate summit has approved the creation of a special fund to cover the damages suffered by vulnerable nations affected by global warming. The two-week talks have switched from fears the whole process could collapse, to hopes of a major breakthrough on a fund for climate “loss and damage”. Delegates applauded after the fund was adopted early… Read More

Voting began on Sunday for elections in Equatorial Guinea with Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, president for 43-year, guaranteed to return to the top job. The polling station in the Nuestra Señora de Bisila school in the Semu suburb opened to let in dozens of voters who had been waiting since early morning. At 80 years-old Obiang holds the world record… Read More

The President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, arrived at a polling station in the capital Malabo on Sunday 20 November to cast his vote in the presidential and legislative elections. After 43 years in power, 80 year-old Obiang is virtually-guaranteed re-election for a sixth term; the longest tenure of any living head of state today except for monarchs.… Read More