Over 2,000 bodies require burial in Goma after Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took over the Democratic of Congo city, inflaming a decade-old conflict and humanitarian crisis. Congo’s communications minister Patrick Muyaya on Tuesday confirmed the mass burial, adding that relative calm has returned to Goma, where the rebel alliance that includes M23 declared a ceasefire for…
Activists in Idlib said that Syrian and Russian warplanes launched a series of airstrikes on Monday on areas taken over by rebels in north-west Syria during a surprise offensive. According to the White Helmets, a Syrian civil defence organization which works in rebel-held areas, there were civilian casualties and numerous residential buildings were destroyed. An…
The military juntas of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have written to the UN Security Council to denounce what they said was Ukraine’s support for rebel groups in West Africa’s Sahel region, Mali’s foreign ministry said. Mali cut diplomatic ties with Ukraine in early August over comments by a spokesperson for Ukraine’s military intelligence agency,…
