U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, an appointee of President Donald Trump, dealt the administration a setback Friday in its ...

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Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and Nina Simone are jazz legends, but in the 1960s, they were unwittingly used as decoys by the United States to deflect attention from its role in its meddling in ...

Congo has been plagued by war for nearly three decades. Millions of people have been displaced, and rape has consistently ...

On February 16th soldiers from M 23 marched single-file through the streets of Bukavu, eastern Congo’s second-largest city.

Rwanda-backed rebels have reached the center of east Congo’s second-largest city, Bukavu and are present in most parts of the city after little resistance from government forces.

Vladimir Putin grabbed much of Donbas, an eastern region of Ukraine, and pretended he had not. As a figleaf he used supposedly local separatists, whom Russia armed, supplied and directed. These forces ...

This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled. By Elian Peltier and Justin Makangara Elian Peltier reported from Dakar ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rebels backed by Rwanda captured more towns in eastern Congo on Wednesday as they moved beyond the key city of Goma in an apparent attempt to expand their control in the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Zawadi Sifa, right, 35, mother of seven, who has been fleeing ...

Congo severed diplomatic ties with Rwanda as fighting between Rwanda-backed rebels and government forces raged around the key eastern city of Goma, leaving at least 13 peacekeepers and foreign ...