Central Africa

Congolese refugees in Angola have said they will not return home despite an agreement between the two governments’ officials to repatriate them.

The President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni has accused the United Nations of “preserving terrorism” in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Three Democratic Republic of Congo soldiers died on Monday while repelling an attack in the eastern Beni region by ADF Ugandan Islamist rebels, who are suspected of murdering 14 UN peacekeepers last month.

Suspected militia fighters killed four Congolese soldiers in a hit-and-run attack on a military post in troubled Kasai-Central province’s capital, Kananga, U.N.-funded radio reported on Sunday.

The United Nations (UN) refugee agency has said that over 15,000 Cameroonians have fled to Nigeria as the government continues with a major crackdown on Anglophone separatists.

Rwanda is often touted as an example of what African states could achieve if only they were better governed. Out of the ashes of a horrific genocide, President Paul Kagame has resuscitated the economy, curtailed corruption and maintained political stability.

Democratic Republic of Congo started two days of national mourning on Monday for 48 people killed by floods and mudslides in the capital Kinshasa amid concerns of a cholera outbreak in the vast city of 10 million.

African migrants expected to leave Israel this year were expecting to be given safe passage to Uganda and Rwanda according to some rights groups.

Thirty-seven people died overnight when torrential rain and mudslides swept though shanty homes in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the authorities said on Thursday.

Hundreds of people in north-east Central African Republic have fled their villages following fresh violence between armed groups, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Sunday.