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UN expert urges Togo to release human rights defender from prison

Jurist 25 Dec 2025
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders on Tuesday urged Togo authorities to release Togolese-Irish citizen and human rights defender Abdoul Aziz Goma from prison on the seventh anniversary of his arrest.
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A free childbirth program ends in eastern Congo at the worst of times

Newsday 12 Dec 2025
GOMA, Congo — In a maternity ward in eastern Congo, Irene Nabudeba rested her hands on her bulging midsection, worried about giving birth in a city under rebel control ... In Goma, the armed rebels are ...
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M23 Rebels Seize Uvira in Eastern Congo

New York Times 10 Dec 2025
The fighting in Congo continues despite Washington’s claims to have brokered an end to the conflict ... .
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DRC : Ex-president Joseph Kabila keeps his visit to Goma shrouded in mystery

Africa Intelligence 25 Nov 2025
After travelling to the provincial capital of North Kivu in late May, F�lix Tshisekedi's predecessor could return to the city mainly to rally the opposition ....
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Rwanda: Rwanda Faults Macron Over Goma Airport Claims

All Africa 24 Nov 2025
... for delays in reopening Goma International Airport.
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Congo-Kinshasa: M23 Rejects Kinshasa's 'Posturing' to Reopen Goma Airport

All Africa 17 Nov 2025
The M23 rebel movement has rejected a decision by President Félix Tshisekedi's government to prepare for the reopening of Goma International Airport, describing Kinshasa's move as "illusory" and devoid of legitimacy ....
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Gabon court sentences former first lady and president's son to 20 years in prison

San Francisco Chronicle 12 Nov 2025
Gabon's former first lady and her son have been sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison ... .
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Congolese rebel groups say Macron’s call to reopen Goma airport ‘untimely’

Anadolu Agency 31 Oct 2025
The rebels seized the airport earlier this year as fighters swept through North Kivu’s provincial capital, Goma ... The group controls significant territory, including the provincial capitals of Goma and Bukavu, which it seized earlier this year.
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Congo's Goma airport to reopen, over $1.7bn in aid pledged: Macron

The Peninsula 30 Oct 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said the airport in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, will reopen to humanitarian flights, months after it was closed when the city was seized by the M23 armed group.
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Democratic Republic of the Congo - Goma: International Day of the Girl Celebrated Under the ...

APO 17 Oct 2025
Download logo. The International Day of the Girl was marked on 14 October in Goma by the BI-ESTHER Foundation, with support from MONUSCO’s Gender Section ... “Girls in North Kivu have suffered deeply during this war ... “We learned a lot ... .
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Feature: Eight months on, Goma airport remains closed amid DR Congo's grinding conflict

China.dot.org 04 Oct 2025
GOMA, DR Congo, Oct ... Cut off from much of the country, Goma, home to over one million people, now feels like a city under siege ... For Goma's residents, the closure has been devastating.
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Gabon’s president's party wins most seats in first legislative elections since 2023 coup

TDT News 30 Sep 2025
The Democratic Union of Builders, founded by Gen.
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Congo’s Former President Sentenced to Death in Absentia

New York Times 30 Sep 2025
Joseph Kabila, who was president of the Democratic Republic of Congo for 18 years, was convicted of treason by a court in Kinshasa ... .
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Gabon awaits results in its first legislative and local elections after the 2023 military coup

Ottumwa Courier 28 Sep 2025
The oil-rich central African nation of Gabon has ...
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Gabon holds first legislative and local elections after the 2023 military coup

San Francisco Chronicle 27 Sep 2025
Gabon has held its first legislative and local elections since a 2023 military coup ended a 50-year political dynasty ... .

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