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Twenty years after the trauma, victims have left their villages to travel to France and tell investigators about the executions, rapes and looting they experienced during the murderous "Erase the board" campaign.

The populations in all these countries, like the vast majority of the world’s people, solidarise with the Palestinians. The “support” for the genocidal war being waged by Israel is in fact only the support of bourgeois ruling cliques.

Harare — Denis Mukwege, the gynaecologist and Nobel laureate who has won renown for campaigning against gender-based violence, declared on Monday that he

Denis Mukwege, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning gynecologist in DR Congo, announced his candidacy for president in December's elections.

Speaking to a packed auditorium in the central African nations capital Kinshasa, the surgical gynaecologist told reporters he wanted to save a country riven by insecurity and poor leadership.

DR Congo's Denis Mukwege, a surgical gynaecologist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, announced on Monday that he will stand for president in elections planned for December. Mukwege was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 alongside Yazidi activist Nadia Murad for efforts to end sexual violence as a weapon of war. 

DR Congos Denis Mukwege, a surgical gynaecologist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, announced on Monday that he would run for president in elections planned for December.

Kinshasa: DR Congo s Denis Mukwege, a surgical gynaecologist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, announced on Monday that he would run for president in elec...

Mark Twain, who wrote about thieves and conmen in America’s “Wild West,” famously said that a mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top. If there is any country where Twain’s maxim has contemporary relevance, it is Rwanda. Over the last decade Rwanda has positioned itself as an exciting hub for producing and trading minerals essential to the global economy.

The sight of such machines is a rarity in Congo’s conflict-ridden eastern region, which is covered in muddy, potholed roads.