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During the capture of the Bunagana border town on June 13 by the M23 rebel group, about 10,000 Congo refugees fled to Kisoro District. However, they are not refusing to make their return home citing the unsafe environment back where they came from. The Congo refugees are from Rutshuru, Busanza, Jomba, Gisigari, Tongo, Bunagana, and Masisi areas, all in North ...

A number of tiers of crowded stands of an improvised bullring collapsed in Columbia on Sunday during a bullfighting event. This left four people dead and hundreds of others severely injured. It is however feared that these numbers will increase with time as scared spectators were left trapped under the rubble. The tragedy happened in the small town of El ...

The top official in Severodonetsk has informed Ukrainian forces to withdraw from the area. This is because the city is apparently Russia’s main focus of invasion as Moscow tries to take over most of Eastern Ukraine. “Remaining in positions that have been relentlessly shelled for months just doesn’t make sense,” Luhansk regional governor Serhiy Haidai said. In the past few ...

In recent developments, the Democratic Republic of Congo has closed its border with Rwanda. This follows an incident that saw a DRC soldier shot dead while in the country’s territory. The closure of the border is the most recent escalation in the diplomatic crisis between the two countries. DRC has accused Rwanda of siding with the M23 rebels who launched ...

The Court of Appeal is ready and will later decide whether to allow the first Home Office flight to depart to Rwanda with asylum seekers. Campaigners and migrants failed to win an injunction last week against the government policy in the High Court. However, apparently, the number facing removal to Rwanda’s capital Kigali on Tuesday fell to single figures. If ...