At the stroke of noon on February 15, 1965, Canada’s red and white maple leaf flag was raised for the very first time on Parliament Hill. On the same day in 1996, National Flag of Canada Day was ...

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Vivian van de Perre, a deputy chief of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, briefed the Security Council remotely from besieged Goma dressed in protective ...

The fall of Nyabibwe raises concerns about a renewed M23 push towards Bukavu. Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered defence forces to begin preparations for a withdrawal of its troops from ...

For decades the hippie enclave Arcata has flown three flags at a Veterans Memorial in a plaza at the center of town: one for California, one for the United States, and one for earth. But over the ...

Deep in the heart of Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Selah Abong’o froze, convinced she was about to encounter something out of legend: a mokele-mbembe, Congo’s mythical dinosaur. In 2003 ...

A rumor circulating online in early February 2025 claimed U.S. President Donald Trump's administration replaced the standard 50-star U.S. flag with a nine-star flag on government websites.

GOMA, Congo (AP) — The Rwanda-backed rebels who seized a major city in eastern Congo declared a unilateral ceasefire Monday, citing humanitarian grounds, but there was no sign of them giving up ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo are seeking to advance south towards Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, in an attempt to expand their area of control in the ...

At least 773 people were killed in eastern Congo's largest city of Goma and its vicinity this week amid fighting with Rwanda-backed rebels who captured the city in a major escalation of a ...

Many homes were hit by shelling as the conflict that has been raging for decades arrived at the city’s doorstep Sunday. Many of the millions of people trapped in eastern Congo’s escalating rebellion ...

Congo’s mines are making the rebels — and their patrons in Rwanda — rich. A map of Africa highlights two countries: Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, along with two major ...