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United Nations blue helmets from Morocco under the MONUSCO umbrella patrol in the territory of Nyiragongo , north of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa) ** FILE **

Congo’s mineral wealth fuels deadly conflict amid U.N. withdrawal plans

By Sam Mednick and Ruth Alonga - Associated Press

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame casts his vote in a presidential election, in Kigali, July 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

Rwanda shrugs off ‘sportswashing’ criticism in pursuit of a winning development formula

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In this Oct. 8, 2014, photo, a medical worker from the Infection Prevention and Control unit wearing full protective equipment carries a meal to an isolation tent housing a man being quarantined after coming into contact in Uganda with a carrier of the Marburg virus, at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Rwanda’s Marburg outbreak is under control, Africa’s health chief says

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

M23, rebels, who control Rubaya, a mining town in eastern Congo since May 2024 known for producing a key mineral used in smartphones, stand with their weapons in Kibumba, in the eastern of Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

Rebel group in Congo generates $300,000 monthly in seized mining areas, U.N. says

By Mark Banchereau - Associated Press

In this Oct. 8, 2014, photo, a medical worker from the Infection Prevention and Control unit wearing full protective equipment carries a meal to an isolation tent housing a man being quarantined after coming into contact in Uganda with a carrier of the Marburg virus, at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Rwanda reports 8 deaths linked to Ebola-like Marburg virus days after it declared an outbreak

By Ignatius Ssuuna - Associated Press

FILE - M23 rebels stand with their weapons in Kibumba, in the eastern of Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

Rwanda’s army and an armed group shelled displaced people camps in Congo, rights group says

By Jean-Yves Kamale and Wilson McMakin - Associated Press

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame gestures as he gives a press conference after his final election campaign rally at Kigali Convention Centre in Kigali, Rwanda Saturday, July 13, 2024. Rwandans are voting Monday, July 15, 2024, in a presidential election that is expected to extend the long rule of President Kagame, who has held power since 1994. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

Rwandans vote in presidential election that’s set to extend the 30-year rule of Paul Kagame

By Ignatius Ssuuna - Associated Press

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a speech, following his first cabinet meeting as Prime Minister, in London, Saturday, July 6, 2024. Britain’s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer has appointed a Cabinet of Labour Party lawmakers and a few outside experts as he tries to tackle priorities including boosting a sluggish economy, building more homes and fixing the creaking state-funded health service.(Claudia Greco, Pool Photo via AP)

New U.K. Prime Minister Starmer says controversial Rwanda deportation plan is ‘dead and buried’

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, left, arrives with the Chancellor of Austria, Karl Nehammer for a joint press conference, at Federal Chancellery Ballhausplatz in Vienna, during a visit to Austria, Tuesday May 21, 2024. (Jordan Pettitt/pool photo via AP)

Austrian leader lauds U.K.’s efforts on migration and cites its plan for deportations to Rwanda

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Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto, right, receives Bosnian Serb leader serving as the 8th President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik in his office office in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)

U.N. resolution to commemorate the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia sparks opposition from Serbs

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, by the Border Force following a small boat incident in the Channel, on Tuesday April 23, 2024. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said "nothing will stand in our way" of getting flights to Rwanda off the ground, as the Government braced itself for legal challenges to the scheme to send asylum seekers to the east African country. (Gareth Fuller/PA via AP)

More deaths in English Channel underscore risks for migrants despite U.K. efforts to stem the tide

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A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, by the Border Force following a small boat incident in the Channel, on Tuesday April 23, 2024. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said "nothing will stand in our way" of getting flights to Rwanda off the ground, as the Government braced itself for legal challenges to the scheme to send asylum seekers to the east African country. (Gareth Fuller/PA via AP)

Human rights groups chide U.K. plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda after Parliament backs new law

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks at a press conference at Downing Street, in London, Monday, April 22, 2024. Sunak pledged Monday that the country’s first deportation flights to Rwanda could leave in 10-12 weeks as he promised to end the Parliamentary deadlock over a key policy promise before an election expected later this year. (Toby Melville/Pool Photo via AP)

First deportation flights will leave U.K. for Rwanda in 10-12 weeks, Prime Minister Sunak pledges

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

Genocide survivor Jeanette Nyirabashyitsi, 45, left a Tutsi, greets Frederick Kazigwemo, a Hutu who was jailed for nine years for genocide-related crimes in the reconciliation village of Mbyo, in Nyamata, Rwanda Friday, April 5, 2024. Thirty years after the genocide, the country has fourteen "reconciliation villages" where convicted perpetrators who have been released from prison after publicly apologizing for their crimes live side by side with genocide survivors. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

In a Rwandan reconciliation village, collaborative efforts among women give hope for unity

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Rwandan refugees hold their hands up and ask for help from Belgian soldiers, who had come to a psychiatric hospital compound outside of Kigali on April 13, 1994. People are patients of this hospital. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker, File)

Though Rwanda has come a long way since the 1994 genocide, scars of the past still haunt the nation

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