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In Congo, M23 rebels’ latest fight is to revive the economy
By David Lewis, Giulia Paravicini and Sonia Rolley GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -The M23 insurgents who routed Congo’s army to take control of the eastern part of one of Africa’s most populous nations now face a task as mundane as it is daunting: governing. The long-term success of their uprising – which aims to overthrow the current leadership in the capital of Kinshasa – requires showing they can bring order and prosperity to the regions they already hold.
BREAKING: Uganda’s Museveni Wins Sixth Term In Office
Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, has won a sixth term in office with 58.6 percent of the vote, in an election disputed by his main rival Bobi Wine who trailed with 34.8 percent, the electoral commission announced on Saturday. “The electoral commission declares Yoweri Museveni… elected President of the Republic of Uganda,” said election commission chairman Justice Simon Mugenyi Byabakama. AFP
Mocimboa Da Praia: Mozambique Battles For Port Seized By IS
Tens of thousands of people in Mozambique have been displaced by the fighting Mozambique says its troops are fighting to regain control of the key port of Mocimboa da Praia, following multiple reports that it had fallen to Islamist militants on Wednesday. The city is near the site of natural gas projects worth $60bn (£46bn). The military says there is ongoing action to “neutralise” the Islamic State group-linked militants, who have been using local people as shields.
In Congo, part-time hunters boost income with bushmeat
No results matched your search More More World6 minutes ago (Oct 09, 2019 03:11AM ET) By Thomas Nicolon MBANDAKA, Congo (Reuters) - Once a month, Mohamed Esimbo Matongu leaves his home in the western Congolese city of Mbandaka and hunts for wild animals. Though he works for a government agency, he says he needs the income from selling most of what he kills to provide for his family. But bushmeat hunters like him are emptying Central Africa's forests at a high rate, researchers say.
In Congo, the Tshisekedi no one had expected takes power
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Felix Tshisekedi has emerged from his father's shadow to become Congo's next president. For decades that post eluded his father, the venerated opposition politician, Etienne, whose death in 2017 helped catapult his son into the limelight. The passage of power from father to son is a familiar story in Congo, where President Joseph Kabila took office at age 29 after the assassination of his father, Laurent, in 2001.
In Congo, the Tshisekedi no one had expected takes power
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Felix Tshisekedi has emerged from his father's shadow to become Congo's next president. For decades that post eluded his father, the venerated opposition politician, Etienne, whose death in 2017 helped catapult his son into the limelight. The passage of power from father to son is a familiar story in Congo, where President Joseph Kabila took office at age 29 after the assassination of his father, Laurent, in 2001.
In Congo, the Tshisekedi no one had expected takes power
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Felix Tshisekedi has emerged from his father's shadow to become Congo's next president. For decades that post eluded his father, the venerated opposition politician, Etienne, whose death in 2017 helped catapult his son into the limelight. The passage of power from father to son is a familiar story in Congo, where President Joseph Kabila took office at age 29 after the assassination of his father, Laurent, in 2001.
In Congo, Rwandan Hutus in limbo as refugee status evaporates
In Congo, Rwandan Hutus in limbo as refugee status evaporates Central African refugees leaving in a truck wave to their relatives remaining at a refugee camp in Betou, northern Congo-Brazzaville on March 31, 2018. ― AFP picBÉTOU, April 12 ― “They are telling me to go. Go where? What would I do back there? Everyone's dead,” says Gilbert Bigirimana, an 18-year-old Rwandan living in Republic of Congo who has never set foot on Rwandan soil.
In Congo, voting machines raise suspicions among president's foes
© Reuters. Motor vehicle traffic and pedestrians are seen near a public transport terminus in Kinshasa By Aaron Ross and David Lewis DAKAR/NAIROBI (Reuters) - When election officials unveiled voting machines that resemble large tablet computers in Democratic Republic of Congo, they hailed them as the solution to a multitude of problems.
In DR Congo, flood tragedy highlights perils of urban sprawl
A child gestures as he looks out over the remains of a landslide in Ngaliema district on January 5, 2018 in Kinshasa. — AFP picKINSHASA, Jan 7 — The morning light showed a scene of desolation as people in Ngaliema surveyed the wreckage of shanty homes swept away by killer floods and landslips. Among the 44 people who perished overnight Wednesday in Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo, were a teenager, Brunelle, her sister Gladys, and Gladys’ baby.
In DR Congo, fight for sanitation is also a fight for dignity
In DR Congo, fight for sanitation is also a fight for dignity A woman stands in front of her toilets, close to her home in the Kindele district of Kinshasa November 17, 2017. — AFP picKINSHASA, Nov 19 — From crouching over a small hole with a sheet for privacy to defecating in the open air, for millions of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo going to the toilet is a daily act of misery.
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