Kinshasa raises alarm yet again over Rwandan aggression as 2.3m people uprooted from homes

Kinshasa raises alarm yet again over Rwandan aggression as 2.3m people uprooted from homes

UN experts have also accused Rwanda of supporting the rebel force, and in July, the EU condemned the country’s military presence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Collective punishment: General sanctions are worsening humanitarian crisis in post-coup Niger

Collective punishment: General sanctions are worsening humanitarian crisis in post-coup Niger

The World Food Programme (WFP) has estimated that 7.3 million people may be driven from moderate to severe food insecurity as a result of the latest post-coup restrictions, which hit as the country was in its traditional “lean season” between harvests.

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5th Circuit Court pause on White House contact with social media expected to take censorship case to US Supreme Court

5th Circuit Court pause on White House contact with social media expected to take censorship case to US Supreme Court

Kim Mack Rosenberg, acting general counsel for Children’s Health Defense (CHD) told The Defender it was not surprising that Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar asked the Supreme Court to stay the injunction, nor that the court issued a brief administrative stay, as the 5th Circuit had also done in July.

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