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Louise Sabina, 39, poses for a photo Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025 in a Goma, eastern Congo school where she and her 10 children found shelter after her soldier husband was sent to Rumangabo for mixing and integration into the M23 rebel forces. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

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As Rwanda-backed rebels seized Goma, the families of Congolese soldiers became a target
By RUTH ALONGA - Associated Press
Sat,02/22/25-11:15PM , 84 Reads
GOMA, Congo (AP) — The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo's major city of Goma have targeted relatives of fleeing Congolese soldiers, the families say, with the troops' wives chased from military barracks and left stranded in
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A health worker attends to a mpox patient, at a treatment centre in Munigi, eastern Congo, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

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Congo finally begins mpox vaccinations in a drive to slow outbreaks
By RUTH ALONGA - Associated Press
Sat,10/05/24-9:06AM , 64 Reads
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congolese authorities Saturday began vaccinations against mpox, nearly two months after the disease outbreak that spread from Congo to several African countries and beyond was declared a
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In the midst of one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, a chess club for children is thriving in a refugee camp in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Its founders say the aim is to try and take the children’s minds away from what they’ve seen and experienced so far: fighting and killing, hunger and fear in a region devastated by conflict. (AP video: Justin Kabumba)

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A chess club for kids thrives in a Congo refugee camp. It’s about more than the game
By RUTH ALONGA - Associated Press
Fri,08/09/24-11:44PM , 157 Reads
KANYARUCHINYA, Congo (AP) — Children sit on the dirt, their clothes ragged and torn, their shoes punctured with holes, but their eyes bright and fixed on what's playing out in front of them.
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