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Israeli-American businessman Moti Kahana holds a flag during a mission to evacuate 200 Jews in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, March, 2022, in this handout picture released to Reuters July 10, 2025. Photo: GDC Inc./Handout via REUTERS

Africa

How a US mission to push a Trump deal in Congo unravelled

The three envoys had come with an offer from Washington: release three American prisoners on death row and, in return, President Donald Trump will accept your minerals-for-security proposal

Members of the M23 rebel group stand guard as people attend a rally addressed by Corneille Nangaa, Congolese rebel leader and coordinator of the AFC-M23 movement, in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo February 27, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Victoire Mukenge/File Photo

Africa

Rwanda exercises command and control over M23 rebels: UN experts

US President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance meet Democratic Republic of the Congo's Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner and Rwanda's Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington DC, June 27, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ken Cedeno

USA

Rwanda, Congo sign peace deal in US to end fighting, attract investment

A Panama sign is seen at a photographic parador with the skyline of the city in the background, in Panama City, Panama October 4, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Erick Marciscano/File Photo

Africa

Panama deems autonomy initiative only solution to settle Sahara regional dispute

Members of the M23 rebel group stand guard as people attend a rally addressed by Corneille Nangaa, Congolese rebel leader and coordinator of the AFC-M23 movement, in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo February 27, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Victoire Mukenge/File Photo

Africa

Rwanda-backed rebels in Congo executed civilians: Human Rights Watch

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy walks on the day of the annual Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey in London, Britain, March 10, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Isabel Infantes/File Photo

Africa

Sudan is world's 'worst humanitarian catastrophe': British FM

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy walks on the day of the annual Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey in London, Britain, March 10, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Isabel Infantes/File Photo

Africa

UK backs Morocco's autonomy plan for Moroccan Sahara: Lammy

Kenyan Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi attends the United Nations climate change conference COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan November 12, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Aziz Karimov/File Photo

Africa

Kenya backs Morocco's autonomy plan for Western Sahara: joint statement

The headquarters of the African Development Bank (AfDB) are pictured in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, January 30, 2020. Photo: REUTERS/Luc Gnago

Africa

African Development Bank to pick new head to confront US funding cuts

A labourer carries a sack of ore at the Rubaya coltan mine, in the town of Rubaya, which is controlled by M23 rebels, in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo March 24, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo

Africa

Congo eyes US minerals deal by end of June: FT

US President Donald Trump meets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, May 21, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Africa

South Africa town leader 'sad' about Trump's misuse of white crosses video

Demonstrators demand the overthrow of the Libya's Government of National Unity headed by Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah, in Martyrs' Square in Tripoli, Libya. May 16, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ayman al-Sahili/File Photo

Africa

Libya's PM says eliminating militias is 'ongoing project' as ceasefire holds

The Meharists are part of Mauritania's National Guard. Photo: AFP

Africa

On patrol for jihadists with Mauritania's camel cavalry