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Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East. A detail of the Madaba Map ...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is heading for presidential elections in less than seven weeks, and again seems ill-prepared. Will it be another fiasco like 2018, where the official outcome ...
The Chairperson commends the Statesmen of the DRC and Rwanda for their commitment to dialogue and peaceful resolution of the crisis in Eastern DRC. Their engagement reflects true leadership and a ...
Google released light “Go” versions of some of its own apps specifically for these phones, and one of them is Maps Go. On paper, there’s no reason you should use this barebones version of ...
Picture: Simphiwe Nkosi/EWN JOHANNESBURG - The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) said the second group of troops still in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will only return ...
You pull out your map. It is unhelpfully vague, includes no topographical features, and you can’t even zoom in properly to get a closer look. Gamers the world over know this struggle.
Since reconfiguring the political landscape in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), President Felix Tshisekedi’s reforms have included declaring a state of siege to restore security in North ...
As the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) seeks to maximize the financial and economic returns from its cobalt reserves – considered some of the largest worldwide -, the upcoming African Mining ...
In late April, security forces fired live ammunition to disperse protesters near a mine in the DRC province of Lualaba. The protesters were demanding compensation from the mine’s owner ...
“M23’s public statements about bringing order to eastern DRC mask their horrific treatment of detainees. They brutally punish those who they believe oppose them and intimidate others, so no ...
Army-backed militias, collectively known as the “Wazalendo,” committed widespread human rights abuses against civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to Human Rights Watch ...
South Africa first provided peacekeepers to the DRC in 1999 under the UN MONUSCO mission. And despite the recent losses in fighting near Goma, the defence force says peacekeeping remains part of ...