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Military trial in DR Congo over deadly crackdown on anti-UN rally

Urdu Point 05 Sep 2023
Goma, DR Congo, Sept 5 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 6th Sep, 2023 ) .Six soldiers faced a military tribunal Tuesday in DR Congo over the killing of nearly 50 people in a crackdown on an anti-UN protest in the east of the country ... The Democratic Republic of Congo's government ...
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48 killed in east DR Congo anti-UN rally crackdown

Urdu Point 31 Aug 2023
Goma, DR Congo, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 31st Aug, 2023 ) .At least 48 people have been killed in a crackdown on an anti-UN protest in eastern DR Congo, according to local sources and official documentation seen by ...
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Ten die in anti-UN demo in DR Congo's Goma

Urdu Point 30 Aug 2023
Goma, DR Congo, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 30th Aug, 2023 ) .At least 10 people were killed Wednesday in Goma, a city in eastern DR Congo, after soldiers attempted to stop a religious group's planned anti-UN protest.
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UN says its peacekeepers fighting deadly disinformation

Urdu Point 21 Aug 2023
"A festival to combat misinformation is an innovative approach to overcome this challenge, a useful means for deconstructing hate speech and fake news." ... Meanwhile, in DR Congo, MONUSCO's initiatives continue to reach communities plagued by disinformation-triggered tensions.
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DR Congo's 'voodoo wrestling' provides spellbinding fun

Urdu Point 09 Aug 2023
Kinshasa, Aug 9 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 9th Aug, 2023 ) .There has been a power cut, and under moonlight in a poor quarter of DR Congo's capital, wrestler Maitresse Libondans explains how she invokes her ancestors to cast spells that rout her opponents.
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Putsch throws Niger team at Francophone Games into disarray

Urdu Point 31 Jul 2023
Kinshasa, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 31st Jul, 2023 ) .Nigerien participants in the Francophone Games, which have kicked off in DR Congo's capital, have been left struggling after a putsch in their home country last week.
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Angola, DRC eye iconic rail revamp to quench global minerals thirst

Urdu Point 09 Jul 2023
Lubumbashi, DR Congo, July 9 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 9th Jul, 2023 ) .Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo are pinning hopes for economic revival on the revamp of an iconic African railway connecting mineral-rich inland areas to the Atlantic Ocean ... DR Congo is ...
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DR Congo sets up scheme to save informal cobalt miners from swindlers

Urdu Point 30 Jun 2023
Kolwezi, DR Congo, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 30th Jun, 2023 ) .Scruffy depots packed with bags of ore line a road leading to the Democratic Republic of Congo's mining capital Kolwezi, in the southeast of the vast mineral-rich African country ... Congo produces over 70 ...
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Tensions high in DR Congo six months ahead of vote

Urdu Point 20 Jun 2023
Kinshasa, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 20th Jun, 2023 ) .Key elections are looming in DR Congo, where political tensions combined with a security crisis and economic woes are creating a powerful and troubling brew.
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Fear, grief after 41 dead in 'brutal' Uganda school attack ​

Manila Bulletin 19 Jun 2023
Ugandan authorities have blamed the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a militia based in DR Congo, and are pursuing the attackers who fled back toward the border with six abductees ... Uganda and DR Congo launched a joint offensive in 2021 to drive the ADF out of their Congolese strongholds, but the measures have failed to blunt the group's violence.
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Fear, grief after 41 dead in ‘brutal’ Uganda school attack

Manila Standard 19 Jun 2023
Ugandan authorities have blamed the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a militia based in DR Congo, and are pursuing the attackers who fled back toward the border with six abductees ... Attacks in Uganda are rare but in June 1998, 80 students were burnt to death in their dormitories in an ADF raid on Kichwamba Technical Institute near the DR Congo border.
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46, including children, killed in attack in east DR Congo

Urdu Point 12 Jun 2023
Bunia, DR Congo, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 12th Jun, 2023 ) .At least 46 people, half of them children, were killed in a militia attack on a camp for displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, security analysts and a local community leader said Monday.
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White rhinos reintroduced to DR Congo national park

Phys Dot Org 11 Jun 2023
Sixteen southern white rhinoceroses have been released into DR Congo's Garamba national park, officials said on ... White rhinos reintroduced to DR Congo national park (2023, June 11) retrieved 11 June 2023 from https.//phys.org/news/2023-06-white-rhinos-reintroduced-dr-congo.html.
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In DR Congo's capital, homeless teens pin future on rap

Urdu Point 08 Jun 2023
Life on the streets is grim and desperate, says "Business," a homeless teen in DR Congo's capital Kinshasa. Kinshasa, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 8th Jun, 2023 ).Life on the streets is grim and desperate, says "Business," a homeless teen in DR Congo's capital Kinshasa.

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