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Joseph Kabila

Joseph Kabila

President of the DR Congo from 2001 to 2019

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  • Aug 28

    Niger puts down military mutiny in Niamey with support from Russian Africa Corps

    Loyalist troops and Russian Africa Corps forces repelled a mutiny by soldiers targeting Niamey's airport base, state broadcaster, and presidential palace, leading to dozens of arrests as checkpoints remain across the capital.

  • Jun 13

    Deadly clashes in Kinshasa after police disperse opposition sit-in against constitutional reform

    At least two people died and hundreds were wounded in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital on Friday as security forces broke up a sit-in by the C64 opposition coalition, with one human rights NGO putting the toll at four dead.

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Twelve countries ban settlement goods

Allies punish settlements as missiles hit Saudi sites and AfD shakes Germany

Governments spent the day drawing lines, then discovered how quickly others could cross them. Europe hardened trade policy toward Israeli settlements, Saudi energy sites burned after Houthi strikes, and German conservatives confronted the scale of their eastern collapse.

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    Poland and 11 other nations restrict or review trade on goods from Israeli settlements in the West Bank, following a joint initiative announced by the UK Foreign Office.

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