A bomb blast in a church in Eastern DR Congo has killed at least 10 people and injured 39 others. The attack blamed on suspected Islamists happened yesterday. The specifics on the attack are a little hazy but reports say the attack happened in a Pentecostal church in North Kivu province. After the bomb blast, authorities arrested a Kenyan at ...
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The Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) has confirmed that they have captured the ADF leader who commanded the recent attack in Ntoroko district. According to the force’s social media pages, this fellow was captured with 2 other insurgents. Therefore this accounts for all the terrorists who launched the attacks last month. “Today, the UPDF has captured the commander of the ...
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South Sudan is sending 750 troops to join the East Africa Force trying to bring peace in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. This is despite its own struggles to restore peace back home. President Salva Kiir officially deployed troops to the Eastern DR Congo to join an East African regional force to end decades of bloodshed in that country. ...
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At least 8 Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels have been captured by Uganda’s armed forces. This happened after they attacked a village in Ntokoro district on the morning of Tuesday. The rebels apparently crossed River Semuliki into Kyanja and other villages bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo. Brig Felix Kulayigye, the defense spokesperson, made the revelation of the eight being ...
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The South Korean Government is set to donate 50,000 doses of the monkey pox vaccines to the African Union. This will be Africa’s first weapon against the outbreak ever since it began. In July, the U.N. health agency designated monkeypox as a global emergency and appealed to the world to support African countries. Further, they did this to avoid repeating ...
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