The M23 militia, funded and directed by Rwanda, said it had seized the city of Goma, terrifying its people, many of whom sought shelter there after fleeing the rebel advance.

The former US administration has said the government of Rwandan President Paul Kagame rebuffed a proposed peace incentive for a deal between Congo and

Fighting has escalated sharply in recent weeks in eastern Congo, where rebels have seized key towns and are closing in on the city of Goma, the government’s last stronghold in the North Kivu province,

Residents in eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, were fleeing on Monday after Rwanda-backed rebels claimed to have captured the regional hub from Congolese forces as fighting escalated in recent days despite calls from the UN Security Council for the insurgents to withdraw.

"Unfairly onerous payments" are cited in the executive order as a reason for WHO withdrawal. Countries’ dues are a percentage of their gross domestic product, meaning that as the world’s richest nation, the United States has generally paid more than other countries.

The Reagan strategy of appointing directors opposed to the very idea of the agency has reached its apotheosis.

President William Ruto, chair of the East African Community Heads of State Summit, has called an urgent meeting to address the escalating war in eastern Congo. “Noting the worsening

Close to 9,800 refugees landed in Texas during the last fiscal year, making it the top destination in the U.S.

Gunfire can be heard on the city’s outskirts, and the Congolese army is deploying troops from the town of Sake to Goma

The orders came hours after Trump addressed the anti-abortion March for Life via video and largely reemphasize GOP abortion policies.

A senior United States diplomat said Washington had offered to extend an important railway infrastructure project into the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The US has been supporting the Lobito Corridor that links the resource-rich but landlocked DRC and Zambia to a port on Angola’s Atlantic coast.

Resettlement agencies around the nation and in Vermont are digging in and getting ready for the effects on immigration following a slew of executive orders from the new