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Congo and Rwanda have submitted a draft peace proposal as part of a U.S.-led process that could end fighting in resource-rich eastern Congo, according to a U.S. official. U.S. President Donald Trump’s senior adviser for Africa and the Middle East, Massad Boulos, said on social media that he welcomed...

Representatives from various organizations submitted a letter to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, urging the government to ensure credibility and transparency in the process of appointing officials of the two transitional justice commissions. During a meeting at the Prime Minister’s residence in...

Israel has blocked aid from entering Gaza for two months and says it won’t allow food, fuel, water, or medicine into the besieged territory until it puts in place a system giving it control over the distribution. But officials from the UN and aid groups say proposals Israel has floated to use its...

The United Nations’ emergency relief coordinator urged Israel to lift its blockade of aid into the Gaza Strip, saying the halting of humanitarian aid amounts to “cruel collective punishment.” The U.N. said thousands of Palestinians had breached a humanitarian field office in Gaza looking for aid...

Thousands of people in Serbia marked six months since a train station tragedy in the country’s north killed 16 people and triggered a wave of anti-corruption protests that have shaken populist President Aleksandar Vucic’s tight grip on power. Workers’ unions joined university students in Belgrade...

A Ukrainian drone attack left at least seven people dead and a Russian strike on Odesa killed two people on May 1, officials said, just hours after Kyiv and Washington signed a long-anticipated agreement granting U.S. access to Ukraine’s mineral resources. The attack in the partially occupied...

A Kenyan opposition legislator was shot dead in the capital Nairobi in what police have described as a “targeted and premeditated” crime. MP Charles Were was shot on the night of April 30 after his car stopped at a roundabout on a busy major road. President Willian Ruto urged police to conduct a...

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have asked the country’s Senate to lift the immunity of former President Joseph Kabila so that he can face trial on charges of supporting a rebel insurgency in the country’s east, the justice minister said. Justice Minister Constant Mutamba told...

Thousands of people rallied in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou in support of the military junta after an alleged coup attempt and comments by an American official criticizing junta leader Ibrahim Traore. The West African country’s military government recently said it foiled a “major plot” to...

Amnesty International criticized Indonesia’s government, saying it suppresses free speech with crackdowns on public protests, targets journalists and rights activists, and uses spyware against dissidents. The rights group said in its annual report on Indonesia that public protests “were met with...