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M23 rebels enter Bukavu, on Sunday. Photo: AP

Rwanda-backed rebels reach major east DR Congo city

The Rwanda-backed M23 took control of the South Kivu province administrative office after little resistance from government forces.

16 Feb 2025 - 6:27PM

White South Africans echo Trump’s claims of racism

16 Feb 2025 - 5:12PM

UN chief warns against regional war over DR Congo at Africa summit

15 Feb 2025 - 7:26PM

African Union summit opens, overshadowed by DR Congo conflict

DR Congo president absent after Rwandan-backed forces seized a second major city on his territory.

15 Feb 2025 - 12:30PM

(From left) Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres, African Union Commission Chairman Moussa Faki, Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and African Union Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security Bankole Adeoye attend the African Union Peace and Security Council meeting in Addis Ababa on Friday. Photo: AFP

DR Congo troops pull back as M23 rebels take airport near Bukavu

If the rebels capture the capital of South Kivu province, it would represent an unprecedented expansion of territory under their control.

15 Feb 2025 - 2:59AM

Armed fighters have raped scores of children in eastern DR Congo, Unicef says

Conflict in mineral-rich region shows no signs of abating, with both government forces and M23 rebels implicated in atrocities.

14 Feb 2025 - 2:33PM

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US man sues safari tour firm after wife dies in Zambia hippo attack

The lawsuit alleges that local guides walked away without helping as the animal grabbed Lisa Manders with its mouth and crushed her.

14 Feb 2025 - 6:04AM

Hippos are known as fiercely territorial animals. Photo: TNS

Brics summit to tackle AI governance, global health and financial reform: Brazil

Note from bloc’s chair this year reflects plan to promote equitable global governance rather than control by ‘just big corporations’.

14 Feb 2025 - 6:23AMvideocam

Aga Khan, leader of Ismaili Muslims, laid to rest in Egypt during private burial

The spiritual leader, who is widely regarded as a builder of bridges between Muslim societies and West, died in Portugal on Tuesday.

10 Feb 2025 - 2:57AM

Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s fiery freedom fighter and first president, dies at 95

Nujoma built ties with China, North Korea, Cuba, Russia - some of which had supported his liberation movement by providing arms and training.

10 Feb 2025 - 2:17AM

Namibia’s former president Sam Nujoma In Havana, Cuba in 2016 for the funeral of former leader Fidel Castro. Nujoma died on Sunday at the age of 95 in Namibia’s capital Windhoek. Photo: EPA-EFE

Libya finds 2 mass graves with nearly 50 bodies in southeast

Last year, Libyan authorities unearthed the bodies of at least 65 migrants in the Shuayrif region, 350km south of Tripoli.

9 Feb 2025 - 4:37PM

Bodies of migrants lie in bags, after they were discovered in a mass grave in a farm in Jikharra area, some 441 km from Benghazi, in Jikharra, Libya, on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters

Britain’s immigration reality show slammed as ‘voyeuristic and nauseating’

Go Back to Where You Came From retraces journeys of asylum seekers crossing the Channel to reach the UK.

9 Feb 2025 - 12:58PMvideocam

DR Congo crisis: African leaders call for ceasefire at Tanzania summit

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has rapidly seized swathes of territory in an offensive that has left thousands dead.

9 Feb 2025 - 4:31AM

Rwanda ‘welcomes’ proposed summit on DR Congo conflict

The UN and several nations claim that M23, which has taken the major eastern mining city of Goma, is backed by Rwanda.

2 Feb 2025 - 11:12PM

African heads of state and senior government officials pose for a photo ahead of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) extraordinary summit in Harare, Zimbabwe on Friday. Photo: AFP

Sudan market attack kills 54, wounds more than 150

Casualties in the attack, carried out by the Rapid Support Forces on a market in Omdurman, reportedly included many women and children.

2 Feb 2025 - 3:03PMvideocam

Debris is seen after an attack at Sabrein Market in Omdurman, north of the Sudanese capital Khartoum, on Saturday. Photo: Khartoum State Press Office/Xinhua

Congo: M23 rebels advance as UN reports executions and rapes

Goma’s capture by the Rwanda-backed rebels has brought humanitarian operations to ‘a standstill, cutting off a vital lifeline for aid’.

1 Feb 2025 - 5:07PM

Rwanda-backed rebels say they plan to take fight to DR Congo’s capital

M23 fighters eye Kinshasa after they captured much of Goma, a city more than 1,500km away in DR Congo’s east.

31 Jan 2025 - 2:38PM

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Uganda nurse dies from Ebola in first outbreak since 2022

Uganda has had multiple Ebola outbreaks, including one in 2000 that killed hundreds.

30 Jan 2025 - 8:31PMvideocam

A person dressed in ebola protective apparel inside an ebola care facility at the Bwera general hospital near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo in Bwera, Uganda. Uganda has had multiple Ebola outbreaks, including one in 2000 that killed hundreds. Photo: Reuters

Aviation accidents

2 Chinese nationals, 1 Indian and 17 others killed in South Sudan plane crash

All 21 people on board, including a single survivor, were employees of an oil consortium that includes China National Petroleum Corporation.

30 Jan 2025 - 8:18AM

Congo’s M23 rebels control Goma airport, embassies attacked

The UN and global powers fear the conflict could spiral into a regional war akin to those of 1996-1997 and 1998-2003 that killed millions.

28 Jan 2025 - 10:24PM

‘Running for fun,’ Japanese tour guide pulls 100kg rickshaw across Africa

‘I couldn’t make it without you guys,’ Yuji ‘Gump’ Suzuki tells supporters after his six-month rickshaw pull from Nairobi to Cape Town.

27 Jan 2025 - 7:45PM

Yuji “Gump” Suzuki with support team members near the end of his 6,400km rickshaw pull from Nairobi to Cape Town. Photo: AFP

Police kill man who set himself on fire outside Tunisian synagogue

The Interior Ministry said the man advanced toward an officer while ablaze, and a second officer opened fire to protect his colleague.

27 Jan 2025 - 12:50PM

The Great Synagogue of Tunis, Tunisia. File photo: AP

Rwandan-backed rebels enter DR Congo’s Goma in major escalation

The M23 militia, supported by Rwanda, has taken control of the city, sparking clashes with Congolese forces and prompting evacuations.

27 Jan 2025 - 9:39PM

Intense combat nears eastern DR Congo, UN plans urgent meeting

Fighting between Congolese forces and Rwandan-backed fighters edged closer to the major city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

26 Jan 2025 - 9:50PM

South African peacekeepers killed in DRC as fighting rages

Fighting has intensified in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo between the Congolese army and Rwandan-backed M23 fighters.

25 Jan 2025 - 10:27PM

Smoke billows from an armored personnel carrier (APC) of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) on Saturday. Photo: AFP

Open Questions series

Scholar Jing Qian on right-sizing China’s economy in the age of Trump

10 Feb 2025 - 12:57PMvideocam

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US-China rivalry doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game: Jessica Chen Weiss

10 Feb 2025 - 6:49AMvideocam

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China’s rise, potential recession, no WWIII yet: 11 key interviews from 2024

23 Dec 2024 - 2:30PM

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Why eco-warrior Ma Jun sees hope for China’s role in Cop29 amid US uncertainty

22 Nov 2024 - 12:38PMvideocam

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Historian on why we aren’t heading towards WWIII yet and how wars have changed

8 Nov 2024 - 12:01AMvideocam

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China’s evolving role in Middle East conflicts, according to an academic

29 Aug 2024 - 10:09AMvideocam

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Scholar Jing Qian on right-sizing China’s economy in the age of Trump

10 Feb 2025 - 12:57PMvideocam

Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

US-China rivalry doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game: Jessica Chen Weiss

10 Feb 2025 - 6:49AMvideocam

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China’s rise, potential recession, no WWIII yet: 11 key interviews from 2024

23 Dec 2024 - 2:30PM

Illustration: Victor Sanjinez

Why eco-warrior Ma Jun sees hope for China’s role in Cop29 amid US uncertainty

22 Nov 2024 - 12:38PMvideocam

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Historian on why we aren’t heading towards WWIII yet and how wars have changed

8 Nov 2024 - 12:01AMvideocam

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