September 16, 20246:09 PM ET
Heavy rains have caused massive flooding and devastation across a number of cities and towns across West and Central Africa, impacting millions of people.
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September 13, 20246:10 PM ET
Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun, left, Marcel Malanga and Tyler Thompson, all American citizens, attend a court verdict in DRC, Kinshasa, on charges of taking part in a coup attempt in May 2024.
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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — A military tribunal in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday handed down death sentences to 37 people, including three US citizens, for their role in a failed coup in the central African nation this summer.
“The court pronounces the strongest sentence: the death penalty,” said Major Freddy Ehume, the president of the tribunal, which was held under a Khaki-green tent in the courtyard of the capital Kinshasa’s Ndolo military prison.
The sentencing ends three months of hearings into the events of May 19, when a group of armed men led by Congolese political exile and longtime US resident Christian Malanga staged an bungled ..
September 13, 20243:06 PM ET
Enlarge this imageThe United Nations flag waves during preparations for the UNGA 2023 at the United Nations headquarters in New York City.
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The United Nations flag waves during preparations for the UNGA 2023 at the United Nations headquarters in New York City.
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The Security Council is the United Nations’ most powerful body, with the ability to impose sanctions and authorize the use of force. There are five permanent members of the council: Russia, France, China, the U.S and Britain. And any one of those permanent members can veto council resolutions. The U.S. is proposing expanding the number of permanent members, including two permanent seats for African countries. We talk to the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. about the proposal.
And Seoul, South Korea is..
September 12, 20247:22 AM ET
More than a year of conflict has brought one of Africa’s largest countries to its knees and unleashed the world’s greatest humanitarian crisis.
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September 10, 20243:35 PM ET
Uganda’s Rebecca Cheptegei (third from left), died after being set on fire in her home. The man who allegedly attacked her has also died, in a case that has renewed calls for more awareness and protections for women against domestic violence in Kenya.
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A man who allegedly poured gasoline on Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei and set her on fire, killing her, has also died of burns, according to the hospital where the two had been treated.
Dickson Ndiema Marangach died at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya, where distance runner Cheptegei died days ago. Cheptegei — who competed in the Paris Olympics just weeks ago — had been based in Kenya, where many elite runners train.
“The two are reported to have quarrelled earlier over a piece of land where Cheptegei had built her house in Kenya’s Rift Valley,&rdquo..
September 8, 20248:00 AM ET
Fighting in and around Sudan’s capital is fierce and devastating to the people who either cannot flee or feel compelled to stay.
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Kenya Red Cross personnel and relatives try to comfort a woman reacting near a burned-out dormitory following a fire at the Hillside Endarasha Primary in Nyeri, Kenya, on Friday.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — The number of children who were burned to death in a school dormitory in central Kenya has risen to 21, the government spokesperson said Saturday.
Officials began removing the bodies of the children as they tried to account for dozens of boys who were still missing.
Africa A fire set off by a gas explosion in Kenya kills at least 3 people and injures 280Journalists were moved to wait outside the Hillside Endarasha Primary School compound as a team that included the government pathologist and morticians from the Nyeri provincial hospital set up tables outside the dormitory on Saturday.
The Thursday night fire razed down a dormitory that was housing 156 boys aged between 10 and 14. More than 100 boys have been accounted for and the govern..
September 6, 20244:25 AM ET
Kenya’s president is in China, where he’s negotiated more infrastructure loans. Back home there’s growing anger about Kenya’s growing foreign debt of more than $80 billion, much of it owed to China.
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September 5, 20245:50 AM ET
Rebecca Cheptegei is seen competing at the Discovery 10km road race in Kapchorwa, Uganda, on Jan. 20, 2023.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died at a Kenyan hospital where she was being treated after 80% of her body was burned in an attack by her partner. She was 33.
A spokesperson at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret city, Owen Menach, confirmed Cheptegei’s death on Thursday. Menach said the long-distance runner died early in the morning after her organs failed. She had been fully sedated on admission at the hospital.
Cheptegei competed in the women’s marathon at the Paris Olympics less than a month before the attack. She finished in 44th place.
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Her father, Joseph Cheptegei, told journalists at the hospital that he had lost a daughter who was “very supportive” and hopes to get justice.
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September 4, 20242:43 AM ET
Over 100 prisoners were killed — either shot dead or crushed — after they tried to escape from the infamous Makala Prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo capital of Kinshasa.
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