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Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo Judith Suminwa talks to journalists during a press conference in Geneva.

Mystery illness kills more than 50 within hours in Congo

The outbreak began after three children ate a bat and died after suffering haemorrhagic fever symptoms. The WHO has ruled out Ebola.

  • Jean-Yves Kamale and Olivia Le Poidevin

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Rory Marples in Gome in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

‘On the streets I once walked dead bodies lay prostrate and forgotten’

I’m heartbroken by the violence that erupted in the vibrant city where I treated patients only last year.

  • Dr Rory Marples
Volunteers bury those who died during a week of clashes in Goma.

The horrific dilemma facing Congo after 3000 deaths in a week

“We have days of mass burials ahead of us”, the Red Cross warns, but the land available to hold the dead is limited.

  • Elian Peltier and Caleb Kabanda
High school sweethearts Noel Yandamutso Zihabamwe and Delphine Uwamwezi Yandamutso.

As refugees, they slept on the ground. Three kids, study and work is ‘nothing’

When Noël fled the Rwandan regime, his long-time sweetheart Delphine followed.

  • Amanda Hooton

For better or adverse, Labor needs to toughen up

There is a parallel between the Albanese government and Joe Biden’s tenure. Both have been reasonably successful in policy delivery but their “nice” demeanour has been overshadowed by a forceful, divisive and ultimately dominating opposition.

A weekly market in Nyamata. The south-eastern town is the site of a memorial to the 1994 genocide.

Three decades after the genocide, Rwanda is a nation transformed

Years after reporting on a broken country, a journalist revisits Rwanda to see its famous gorillas – and discovers a land in the midst of renewal.

  • Jennifer Byrne
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Children in a refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) 1994, at the time of the Rwandan genocide.

Suffer the little children. It is ever the way, from Rwanda to Gaza

They are the innocents, and it is never their fight. But it is the children of conflict who always suffer the most.

  • Tony Wright
Emma Pidden waits for her bus on Congress Street in Portland, Maine following a spring snowstorm.
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World of photos, April 6, 2024

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.

What hope for peace?

Does the peace sign still stand a chance?

A universal peace sign seems wildly optimistic now when almost everything from the colour of your hat to the emoji in your post is an ideological declaration.

  • Michael Rock
Zairean civil guardsmen patrolling the streets of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

A man stepped out on the road with an AK-47. I traded my life back with cigarettes – and a desperate joke

Everyone in Rwanda knew travelling after dark was inviting trouble. I’d taken a risk for a trivial reason, and now a large man with an assault rifle was at the window of the car, making demands.

  • Tony Wright

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