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SEVERAL DEAD IN DR CONGO PROTESTS
The widespread marches had been called for by the country's Catholic Church, which appealed for a large but peaceful demonstration... READ MORE›
POPULATION OF MOUNTAIN GORILLAS UP, RWANDA TO RELEASE CENSUS FIGURES
Mountain gorillas are under threat from poaching, war and habitat loss... READ MORE›
RWANDA EXPECTS CENSUS TO SHOW SURGE IN RANKS OF HIGHLY ENDANGERED MOUNTAIN GORILLAS
Mountain gorillas are under threat from poaching, war and habitat loss... READ MORE›
CONGO REPORTS ARREST IN KILLING OF 2 U.N. EXPERTS
As many as 5,000 people have died in the fighting that has followed, and the United Nations has identified mass graves scattered across the province... READ MORE›
RWANDA REPORT: FRANCE 'COMPLICIT' IN 1994 GENOCIDE
The Rwandan government has accepted the report's recommendation to launch a full investigation into the role of French officials... READ MORE›
ISLAMIST ATTACK KILLS AT LEAST 15 UN PEACEKEEPERS AND FIVE SOLDIERS IN DRC
Antonio Guterres, UN secretary general, described the attack by an Islamist extremist group as a 'war crime'... READ MORE›
WORST ATTACK ON U.N. IN RECENT HISTORY KILLS 15 PEACEKEEPERS IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Human Rights Watch has documented more than 500 civilian deaths, at least 1,087 people kidnapped, and 11 reports of mass rape in North Kivu alone since June... READ MORE›
UN PEACEKEEPERS KILLED IN DR CONGO
The head of Monusco, Maman Sidikou, said I condemn in the strongest terms this deadly attack on United Nations peacekeepers and the FARDC... READ MORE›
MILITANTS KILL EGYPTIAN U.N. PEACEKEEPER IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
Peacekeeper and wounded three others in an attack in southern Central African Republic on Sunday, the United Nations said in a statement... READ MORE›
RWANDA OFFERS REFUGE TO LIBYA 'SLAVES'
Rwanda has offered to give refuge to around 30,000 African migrants stuck in Libya often in enslaved conditions... READ MORE›
KIRUNDI ONE OF SEVEN NEW LANGUAGES ON SBS RADIO
Kirundi is the primary language spoken in the East African country of Burundi... READ MORE›
SUSAN LINNEE, EX-AP BUREAU CHIEF IN MADRID AND NAIROBI, DIES AT 75
Linnee became one of the news organization's first female American bureau chiefs overseas when she was named AP's Madrid bureau chief in 1982... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Kilimanjaro Wing
THOUSANDS OF WOMEN WERE RAPED DURING RWANDA'S GENOCIDE. NOW THEIR KIDS ARE COMING OF AGE.
Rwandan government leaders had commanded the majority population, the Hutus, to exterminate the Tutsis... READ MORE›
AS MIGRANT TRAGEDIES SHOCK EUROPE A BIGGER CRISIS LOOMS IN MIDEAST
The United Nations is urging countries worldwide to grant asylum to 130,000 Syrians in the coming year... READ MORE›
POPE APOLOGISES FOR CHURCH'S ROLE IN RWANDA GENOCIDE
About half of Rwandans are Catholic, but since the genocide many have turned to pentecostal churches... READ MORE›
CATHOLIC BISHOPS APOLOGISE FOR ROLE IN RWANDA GENOCIDE
The Catholic Church in Rwanda has apologised for its role in the 1994 genocide, saying it regrets the actions of those who participated in the massacres... READ MORE›
FOR 2 EXPERTS KILLED IN CONGO, U.N. PROVIDED LITTLE TRAINING AND NO PROTECTION
She once confided to a friend about the ad hoc nature of her United Nations assignment... READ MORE›
AS SOUTH SUDAN CRISIS WORSENS THERE IS NO MORE COUNTRY
MALAKAL South Sudan In places where the fighting is fiercest no one is even attempting to count the dead... READ MORE›
PAUL KAGAME RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT WITH 99% OF VOTE IN RWANDA ELECTION
Paul Kagame re-elected president with 99 percent of vote in Rwanda election... READ MORE›
AT UN POPE ISSUES SWEEPING CALL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
Standing before the General Assembly in his first speech here Francis endorsed United Nations efforts to reach a global compact to fight poverty and climate change... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN TROOPS 'FIGHTING ALONGSIDE ASSAD'S ARMY AGAINST SYRIAN REBELS'
An unnamed activist with the Syrian rebel group the Free Syrian Army told The Times The Russians have been there a long time... READ MORE›
EDITORIAL LOST VOICES OF THE WORLDS REFUGEES
In the many conferences and diplomatic discussions about refugees, their own voices are rarely heard... READ MORE›
RWANDANS CARRY ON SIDE BY SIDE TWO DECADES AFTER GENOCIDE
Rwandans Carry On, Side by Side, Two Decades After Genocide... READ MORE›
WORLD POPULATION TO HIT 8BN IN 2023, SAYS NEW UN SURVEY
By contrast, all European countries now languish with fertility rates below replacement level, meaning that populations will inexorably decline without large-scale immigration... READ MORE›
PAUL KAGAME WINS PRESIDENTIAL POLL BY A LANDSLIDE
He has overseen strong economic growth, at an average of 8 percent between 2001 and 2015, while also turning Rwanda into a technological hub and uprooting corruption... READ MORE›
READ PUTIN'S U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPEECH
Russia believes in the huge potential of the United Nations, which should help us avoid a new global confrontation and engage in strategic cooperation... READ MORE›
GLOBAL POVERTY DROPS SHARPLY WITH CHINA MAKING BIG STRIDES UN REPORT SAYS
In releasing the report, United Nations officials celebrated meeting some of the goals... READ MORE›
RWANDAN SPY CHIEF KARENZI KARAKE ARRESTED IN LONDON
Rwanda's intelligence chief Karenzi Karake, who is wanted in Spain for war crimes, has been arrested in London... READ MORE›
UN PROPOSES STEPS TO CURB SEX ABUSE BY PEACEKEEPERS
Guterres also called for appointing a special human rights expert who would report directly to the UN chief to be a victims' rights advocate... READ MORE›
PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME WINS BY LANDSLIDE
Rwanda election President Paul Kagame wins by landslide... READ MORE›
UN SECURITY COUNCIL IS FAILING SYRIA, BAN KI-MOON ADMITS
We need some solidarity unity of purpose particularly among the permanent members of the security council he said in an interview... READ MORE›
UK DISMISSES RWANDA SPY CHIEF CASE
Rwanda's Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo said she was delighted that Gen Karake was returning to Rwanda... READ MORE›
PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO BOLSTER LOCAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
We need good information, Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, said at an event to announce the new partnership... READ MORE›
U.N. SAYS SOME OF ITS PEACEKEEPERS WERE PAYING 13-YEAR-OLDS FOR SEX
As the United Nations maintains nine peacekeeping operations in Africa, employing over 100,000 people on the continent, the abuses threaten to erode the organization's legitimacy... READ MORE›
REFUGEE CRISIS IN EUROPE PROMPTS WESTERN ENGAGEMENT IN SYRIA
To aid refugees fleeing the Central African Republic, for instance, he has to dip into a pot of United Nations money not earmarked for specific crises... READ MORE›
ORPHANAGE FOUNDER FROM AFRICA WINS PRIZE IN MEMORY OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Ms. Barankitse was born in Burundi, a central African nation where a tumultuous ethnic conflict pit her people, the Tutsis, against the Hutus... READ MORE›
UN ADOPTS AMBITIOUS GLOBAL GOALS AFTER YEARS OF NEGOTIATIONS
The new goals follow and expand on an earlier list, the Millennium Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2000... READ MORE›
70 ACHIEVEMENTS, 70 YEARS: A VISUAL GUIDE TO WHAT THE UN HAS DONE
70 achievements, 70 years a visual guide to what the UN has done... READ MORE›
UN PULLS OUT OF DR CONGO OFFENSIVE
Dr congo conflict un pulls out of planned assault on fdlr... READ MORE›
SOUTH SUDANS PRESIDENT SIGNS PEACE DEAL WITH REBELS
In its report to the United Nations, the panel found that both the government and rebels had devoted vast resources to the conflict... READ MORE›
RWANDA ILLEGALLY DETAINING, TORTURING CIVILIANS: HRW
Human Rights Watch HRW has released a report detailing unlawful detention and torture in Rwanda... READ MORE›
BURUNDI EYES RWANDA WITH SUSPICION
Instead, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda said Mr. Nkurunziza should not run again because he had failed his people, a remark that angered Burundian officials... READ MORE›