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9.12.25

200,000 flee new advance of Rwanda-backed rebels in Congo despite Trump peace deal

By Reuters

Dec 9 - Two hundred thousand people have fled their homes in eastern Congo in recent days, the United Nations said, as Rwanda-backed rebels march on a strategic town just days after Donald Trump hosted the Rwandan and Congolese leaders to proclaim peace.

In a statement released late on Monday, the U.N. said at least 74 people had been killed, mostly civilians, and 83 admitted to hospital with wounds from escalating clashes in the area in recent days.

Burkina Faso’s Council of Ministers has adopted a bill to restore the death penalty, targeting offenses such as treason, terrorism and espionage, authorities said.

5.12.2025

AP

By  WILSON MCMAKIN

DAKAR, Senegal — 

“The adoption of this bill is part of reforms ... to have a justice that responds to the deep aspirations of our people,” Minister of Justice Edasso Rodrigue Bayala said in a Facebook post late Thursday.

25.10.2025
BBC

Former Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina, who was ousted in a coup last week, has been stripped of his citizenship by the new regime.

The order, signed by new Prime Minister Herintsalama Rajaonarivelo, cited local laws stipulating that people who acquired foreign citizenship should lose their Malagasy nationality.

Rajoelina, 51, obtained French citizenship a decade ago, prompting calls for his disqualification from the 2023 presidential election. But he defied those calls and went on to win.

(dpa) - A good twenty years after the massacres in Darfur in Sudan, an ex-militia chief has been found guilty by the International Criminal Court. Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman was convicted by the judges in The Hague of 31 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity - including murder, rape and torture. The sentence will be decided at a later date.