Central Africa

The President of Chad has been given expanded powers after the country’s parliament on Monday approved a new constitution in an overwhelming manner.

A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday sentenced a warlord to 20 years in prison after finding him guilty of "sexual slavery" a decade ago, an aid group said.

United Nations investigators have discovered five probable mass grave sites in eastern Congo’s Ituri province where an outbreak of ethnic violence has killed at least 263 people, a U.N. peacekeeping mission said.

The Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday sacked more than 250 magistrates who did not have a law degree or were accused of corruption.

The United Nations has raised $528 million in pledges from donors after holding an aid conference to help deal with the humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The United Nation has held a donor conference in Geneva to raise $1.7bn in aid for the humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Demonstrators in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, have placed at least nine corpses in front of the UN's mission following recent clashes.

President Donald Trump lifted a U.S. travel ban on citizens from Chad on Tuesday after a six-month U.S. government review found improvements in the African country’s security standards, the White House said.

Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a United Nations base in Central African Republic’s capital late on Sunday, capping a day that saw at least one civilian killed and dozens of people injured, a U.N. spokesman said.

Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila has committed to hold elections on December 23.