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Abby Mukiibi Nkaaga, and Michael Wawuyo. This looks like an impressively immersive film about the harrowing experiences of soldiers trying to survive. Heres the official trailer (+ poster) for Joël Karekezis The Mercy of the Jungle, direct from YouTube: War-weary Sergeant Xavier (Marc Zinga) and fresh recruit Private Faustin (Stéphane Bak) are separated from their Rwandan battalion inside Congolese territory when it is called out suddenly on nighttime raid. They face a lack of water, food, ...

To him, the wars he has fought, more pronounced from 1981 over disputed elections a year earlier, are just wars to which he was provoked

Owen Gagare Share Families wait outside the port of Pemba on April 1 for a boat of evacuees from the coast of Palma, Mozambique. So far, Islamic State-affiliated insurgents have killed more than 2 000 people and displaced more than 750 000. Picture: Alfredo Zuniga/AFP Following the recent military siege on the Mozambican northern town of Palma by Islamic State-linked insurgents who have killed dozens of people, including a Zimbabwean a...

Khaliku Kaba will never forget the day he came to Lansing. "August 14, 2008 was the day I was scheduled for resettlement," he said. "I left the rest of my family in Uganda and I came here by myself. I didn’t know anyone here." Kaba, 34, came to the United States 13 years ago as part of a U.N. refugee resettlement program. Born in Rhino camp, a settlement in northwest Uganda populated mainly by refugees of the South Sudan civil war, he moved between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of...

The Nobel laureate imprisoned in his own hospital He has operated on thousands of survivors of rape but now the powers that be want him dead 3 April 2021 • 8:11am Over the last two decades, Dr Denis Mukwege has seen his fair share of horrors. The Nobel laureate and his colleagues have treated tens of thousands of war rape survivors at Hospital Panzi in the Democratic Republic of Congo – stitching little girls’ intestines back inside them after militias and soldiers tore them apart.  The ...

Credit: Guerchom Ndebo/Getty Images STOCKHOLM / ROME, Mar 10 2021 (IPS) - On the morning of 22nd February a jeep from the World Food Programme (WFP), followed by another one with the Italian ambassador, Luca Anastasio, was driving along Route Nationale 2 passing by The Virunga National Park, an UNESCO Congolese World Heritage Site famous for its dwindling population of unique mountain gorillas. A perilous voyage, not only due to tomb-deep potholes, but especially the presence of various, e...

Luca Attanasio slain in assault on UN peacekeepers convoy

    Attanasio died in hospital of gunshot wounds, a high-ranking diplomat told AFP in Kinshasa.     The envoys car was part of a MONUSCO UN peacekeeping mission convoy including the EUs delegation chief, sources said.     The attack was an attempted robbery, rangers at Virunga National Park told various media outlets including The Jerusalem Post.     The attack took place at around 10 oclock local (09:00 Italian time), near the town of Kanyamahoro.     Several...

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 22 - Italys ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Luca Attanasio, and a Carabiniere, Vittorio Iacovacci, were killed in an attack on a World Food Programme (WFP) convoy travelling from Goma to Bukavu in the African country on Monday, well-informed sources told ANSA.     Attanasio, 43, from Limbiate near Monza, died in hospital of gunshot wounds to the abdomen after arriving in hospital in critical condition, a high-ranking diplomat told AFP in Kinshasa.   �...

Winnipeg Free Press By: Alan Small | Posted: 7:00 PM CST Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021 Save to Read Later Rickson Makwe has overcome huge obstacles to make his way to Canada. His next one is starting a music career. Rickson Makwe has overcome huge obstacles to make his way to Canada. His next one is starting a music career. The 34-year-old native of the Democratic Republic of the Congo lost his eyesight when he was just 10 years old, after a ...