Turkish Communications Director Fahrettin Altun stresses Türkiye’s desire to look at Africa "not through its negative aspects, but through its true potential and dynamism".
DRC Health Minister Samuel-Roger Kamba says that over 5,700 have also been wounded.
String of heinous crimes committed by Rwanda, hordes and puppets grows longer every day, government spokesperson Patrick Muyaya says.
Presidency spokesperson Tina Salama says Tshisekedi would form a government of national unity and make changes in the leadership.
Doctors Without Borders reports its cholera centre in Kosti Hospital is overwhelmed, forcing health authorities to use emergency rooms for extra patient space.
Unanimously adopted UN Security Council resolution "strongly condemns the ongoing offensive and advances of M23 rebels in North-Kivu and South Kivu with the support of the Rwanda Defense Forces."
"The role of the G20 as a geoeconomics stabiliser should be encouraged. As Türkiye, we are ready to contribute to this vision," says Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.
UN seeks $40.4 million to strengthen preparedness and deliver life-saving protection and assistance to 275,000 internally displaced people in DRC.
Terrorists launched a dawn assault on several Somali military positions in the Middle Shabelle region, authorities say.
"There is a lack of consensus among major powers ... on how to respond to these issues of global significance," South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa says.
Democratic Republic of Congo asks neighbouring Chad for military support to help fight M23 rebels who have been moving south towards Uvira, near Burundi, Reuters news agency reports.
In addition to the 113 bronzes displayed at the Wereldmuseum (World Museum) in Leiden, the municipality of Rotterdam will also return six other objects looted in Britain's raid in the late 1800s.
The death toll was up 233 deaths from the initial toll by emergency lawyers, who said the killings included executions, kidnapping and shooting of those trying to escape.
Analysts fear violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo could escalate, reminiscent of Second Congo War (1998-2003), which involved several African nations and led to millions of deaths due to violence, disease, and starvation.
Trump’s criticism of South Africa stems from Pretoria’s opposition to Israel’s war in Gaza and its newly enacted law, which aims to redistribute white-owned farmland in specific circumstances for the public good.
OHCHR warns that the situation in eastern DRC is "deteriorating sharply, resulting in serious human rights violations and abuses".
According to the lawyer group, some residents were shot while attempting to flee across the Nile River while others drowned as a result.
M23 captured the eastern DRC city after it was abandoned by Congolese forces.
The United Nations needs more than 40 percent from last year's budget to combat famine, displacement, sexual violence and deaths while a civil war rages and the Trump administration pauses international spending.
"Rwanda is stubborn in its plan of occupation, looting, crimes," officials says.
US President Donald Trump froze the bulk of US foreign assistance for three months on returning to office in January, leaving global humanitarians scrambling to deal with the fallout.
The fall of Bukavu, if confirmed, would represent the most significant expansion of territory under the M23's control since the latest insurgency started in 2022.
The first round of the elections was boycotted by the main opposition party, Juwa, which claimed the vote lacked transparency and was a "farce."
Authorities say the collapse of an illegally operated mine in western Mali killed 48, and the search for victims is still going.
Guterres warns that the fighting raging in South Kivu threatens to push the entire region over the precipice.
M23 rebels enter Kazingu and Bagira zones and are advancing towards centre of Bukavu, capital of South Kivu province, say residents and civil society leaders.
UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi highlights the crisis in Sudan as one of the largest in the world, arguing that restrictions on international press coverage are preventing it from receiving the attention it requires.
The rebels have been trying to push south towards Bukavu since they seized Goma, the largest city in eastern DRC, at the end of last month.
M23 has been inching south since they seized eastern DRC's largest city of Goma at the end of last month, with some 3,000 people killed in the days preceding the city's capture, according to UN figures.
In 2023, the AU joined forces with the Caribbean community CARICOM to demand reparations. CARICOM has its own reparation plan, which, among other demands, calls for technology transfers and investments to tackle health crises and illiteracy.
In addition to killing tens of thousands of people and uprooting over 12 million, the war has pushed five areas of the country into famine and nearly 25 million people into acute food insecurity.
Seven big automakers operate in South Africa: BMW, Ford, Isuzu, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Toyota and Volkswagen.
South Africa was the first nation to drag Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over its genocidal war on Gaza that has claimed more than 48,000 lives and reduced the enclave to rubble.
Kizza Besigye's wife confirms his protest as he faces a military trial despite a court ruling against such prosecutions.
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