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Congo army battles convicted war criminal's militia, civilian deaths reported
The Malaysian Star
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August 15, 2025
(Reuters) -Heavy clashes erupted this week between Congo's army and a militia founded by a war criminal convicted at the International Criminal Court but later released, both sides said, and one civil society activist put the civilian death toll...
Northview Heights immigrant community weighs in on Pittsburgh Public Schools changes
WESA - Pennsylvania
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August 22, 2025
In an effort to hear more feedback from the district’s immigrant community, Pittsburgh Public Schools held a gathering in Northview Heights on Thursday. Many of the district’s African immigrant families are concentrated in the North Side apartment...
Opioid grantee audit finds financial inconsistencies within Congo Legacy Center spending
Delaware Public Media - Delaware
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August 21, 2025
Delaware's Office of Auditor of Accounts (AOA) releases the second wave of opioid grantee audits, finding financial inconsistencies within Congo Legacy Center's plans to fund the Congo Tarir Project. The audits are being conducted on a rolling...
Adamawa Government Reunites 14 Rescued Children With Families
Information Nigeria
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August 20, 2025
The Adamawa State Government in Yola, on Wednesday, reunited 14 children, recently rescued from traffickers, with their families. The children were traced to Anambra State by the Adamawa Police Command, with active support from the state...
La Marche de Brazzaville
DVIDS - Georgia
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August 19, 2025
Maintenance window scheduled to begin at February 14th 2200 est. until 0400 est. February 15th DVIDS Hub works best with JavaScript enabled USAFE-AFAFRICA Band hosts military officers from the Republic of Congo-Brazzaville on Ramstein Air Base,...
Staten Island relief organization: Gaza travel ban threatens care for war-injured children
SI Live - New York
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August 20, 2025
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- At just 4 years old, Omar Abukwaik lost his arm and suffered severe injuries when a bombing destroyed his home and killed his entire family in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war. The boy also suffered severe burns to his body,...
India slams Pakistan with hypocrisy on gender based crimes
News India Times
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August 21, 2025
Mauritian barrister Pramila Patten, the Secretary General’s Special Representative deal-ing with issues of sexual violence in conflict (left) and Eldose Punnoose, the charge d’af-faires of India’s Permanent Mission to the UN (right) addressing the...
Camaguey looks at the Congo from Cuba in International Festival
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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August 20, 2025
Its program, which aims at reaching a wide audience to strengthen ties between cultural institutions, will feature a grand parade through the Historic Heritage Center of Camaguey. Afterward, La Ceiba Ceremony will be held, in coordination with the...
Atlanta’s cultural leaders honor Jim Alexander’s legacy at ‘WE ARE MUSIC’ exhibit
Rough Draft Atlanta - Georgia
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August 20, 2025
Support local news in ATL Atlanta’s best morning newsletter Rough Draft is a clever, curated, and concise email to help you stay up-to-date. Jim Alexander pauses before delivering remarks at the closing reception for “WE ARE MUSIC” at The SUN ATL....
Churches attacked, Christians jailed as Sudan’s civil war rages on
LifeSite
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August 11, 2025
(LifeSiteNews) — Christians continue to be indiscriminately targeted by both factions in Sudan’s bloody civil war, a new report has found. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) recently released an update to its...
Living the Catholic Faith in the Heart of Muslim Morocco
National Catholic Register
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“My Father, I abandon myself to you … I am ready for all, I accept all.” There I knelt in Adoration in Rabat, Morocco, surrounded by 800 university students from dozens of African nations, singing the Prayer of Abandonment written 130 years before...
Nigeria vs Congo, African Nations Championship 2025 Live Streaming Online in India: How To Watch NGA vs CGO Football Match Live Telecast on TV & Score Updates in IST?
Latestly
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August 19, 2025
Nigeria National Football Team vs Congo National Football Team African Nations Championship 2025 Live Streaming: Nigeria will be facing Congo in a Group D clash in the African Nations Championship this evening with Nigeria struggling with two...
There’s no statue to Begum Mofida Ahmed in Jorhat. She was 1st Assamese Muslim woman MP
The Print
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August 19, 2025
Most Indians today have probably forgotten that the national flag was designed by a Muslim woman named Surayya Tyabji. Jawaharlal Nehru had assigned this task to Tyabji, who was an active member of the Indian National Congress (INC). It was her...
Jongo festival in Rio calls for cultural preservation
Euronews
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August 19, 2025
The festival in Tiradentes Square ran for three days, with drumming, songs and dance steps passed on from enslaved ancestors from Congo and Angola. Once a secret form of communication, Jongo is recognised as part of Brazil’s cultural heritage and...
Kosoko family seeks partnership with U.S. on cultural heritage
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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August 19, 2025
The Oloja of Lagos –elect, Prince Abiola Kosoko, has sought a partnership with the United States Consulate for further development and preservation of King Kosoko’s palace and museum. The appeal was made when the new Consul General of the United...
Congo’s teens brave bombs, rebels, and abduction to play hoops
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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GOMA, Congo — When the bombings and gun battles in the Congolese city of Goma finally abated, teens across the city slipped out of the homes they had been hiding in since a rebel invasion started. They were all headed to the same place. Moise...
Congo’s Teens Brave Bombs, Rebels and Abduction to Play Hoops
The New York Times
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August 8, 2025
When the bombings and gun battles in the Congolese city of Goma finally abated, teens across the city slipped out of the homes they had been hiding in since a rebel invasion started. They were all headed to the same place. Moise Bandeke, 14,...
Immigration Department unearths document fraud syndicate
Lusaka Times
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August 7, 2025
The Department of Immigration has uncovered a document fraud syndicate involving over 370 passports of different countries and other documents. According to a statement made available to ZANIS today by the Department of Immigration Chief Public...
Gorinto’s ‘Life-Affirming’ Cultural Exchange
State College - Pennsylvania
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August 16, 2025
This story originally appeared in the August 2025 issue of Town&Gown magazine. A gorinto is a Japanese pagoda, typically a stone tower made of the five shapes representing the Buddhist concept of the five elements — earth, water, fire, wind and...
Nigeria, Congo to expand trade, peace, cultural cooperation
Business Day
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August 16, 2025
Nigeria has restated its commitment to deepening bilateral relations with the Republic of the Congo by expanding cooperation in trade, peace, and cultural exchange, describing the partnership as crucial to regional stability and mutual prosperity....