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Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo launched joint air and artillery strikes in eastern Congo on Tuesday against an Islamic State-linked militia known as the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), both countries said.

Ireland will provide 2.2 billion euros ($2.5 billion) to help repair or rebuild homes constructed using defective blocks during the light-touch regulation of the Celtic Tiger boom over a decade ago, the government announced on Tuesday.

One Congolese and one international staff member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were abducted in conflict-hit eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday, the humanitarian aid group said.

Gold prices eased on Monday, resuming a broad decline from the previous week, as the dollar firmed and risk sentiment recovered with markets weighing how severe the economic impact would be from the Omicron coronavirus variant.

Sales of rough diamonds by Debswana Diamond Company jumped 73% in the first nine months of 2021, statistics released by the Bank of Botswana showed on Tuesday, driven by the reopening of U.S. and China's consumer markets.

Emboldened by its recent success at Danone , activist Bluebell Capital is trying its luck at Glencore . With coal prices near record highs, the upstart fund has chosen an unfortunate moment to argue that investors would be better served spinning off the group’s extensive holdings of the pollutant. The intervention isn’t entirely unhelpful, though.

Colombian presidential hopeful Sergio Fajardo said on Tuesday he will ensure the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) issues safeguards to protect his political rights following a ruling against him by the country's comptroller general.

Hundreds of mostly Haitian migrants, broke and exhausted, turned back to the city they had left a day earlier on Mexico's southern border, having failed to persuade authorities to move them to other parts of the country, caravan organizers said.

Australia-listed lithium developer Vulcan Energy Resources on Monday said it signed a binding agreement with Dutch automaker Stellantis NV to supply lithium hydroxide from its German project for an initial five-year period.

Lithium developer Vulcan Energy Resources said on Monday it had signed a deal to supply the world's fourth-largest automaker Stellantis with climate-friendly lithium from Germany.