On Christmas Day in 1497, Vasco da Gama rounded the southern tip of Africa. He named the land he encountered Natalis--Portuguese for Christmas. Today, it is known as KwaZulu-Natal.

U.S. President Trump says he has ended the long war in eastern Congo. But despite signing peace deals, Congo’s M23 rebels have tightened their grip on power by enlisting more soldiers, building a ...

A city suspended in limbo. This is the situation in Uvira, a city in South Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on ...

Many survivors of the M23 conflict in Goma bear the physical and emotional scars of war, as they navigate life after losing ...

Hundreds of men and women sat in rows in a wooden hall listening to the leader of Congo's M23 rebellion at the end of a two-week re-education programme. The rebel chief, Sultani Makenga, asked the ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 21 September 2007 According to ...

The latest escalation in fighting in North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has forced thousands more people to flee southwards towards Goma and across the border into ...

M23 rebels announced on December 18, 2025, that they had withdrawn from Uvira and nearby areas in response to calls from the ...

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