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The Hotel Mille des Collines in Kigali, Rwanda.

Famous hotel I’d booked was full, so they put me in a room with a stranger

It’s almost midnight when I arrive at Hotel Rwanda, and someone is sleeping in my bed.

  • Catherine Marshall

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Gif of conflicts Donald Trump claims to have solved.

Trump says he has ‘solved’ seven conflicts. Here’s what to know about them

In some, his role was clear. In others, it remains contested, or analysts warned that lasting peace could be elusive.

  • Susannah George, Joshua Yang and Cate Brown
Embattled Ukraine is among the countries US diplomats have approached to take US deportees.

America’s most unwanted and the urgent cable that reveals where Trump wants them to go

The global dealmaking efforts show the measures the US president is willing to take to fulfil his aspirations for mass deportations, even if it means flying immigrants into danger.

  • Edward Wong, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Hamed Aleaziz and Minho Kim
Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo Judith Suminwa talks to journalists during a press conference in Geneva.

Mystery illness kills more than 50 within hours in Congo

The outbreak began after three children ate a bat and died after suffering haemorrhagic fever symptoms. The WHO has ruled out Ebola.

  • Jean-Yves Kamale and Olivia Le Poidevin
Rory Marples in Gome in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

‘On the streets I once walked dead bodies lay prostrate and forgotten’

I’m heartbroken by the violence that erupted in the vibrant city where I treated patients only last year.

  • Dr Rory Marples
Volunteers bury those who died during a week of clashes in Goma.

The horrific dilemma facing Congo after 3000 deaths in a week

“We have days of mass burials ahead of us”, the Red Cross warns, but the land available to hold the dead is limited.

  • Elian Peltier and Caleb Kabanda
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High school sweethearts Noel Yandamutso Zihabamwe and Delphine Uwamwezi Yandamutso.

As refugees, they slept on the ground. Three kids, study and work is ‘nothing’

When Noël fled the Rwandan regime, his long-time sweetheart Delphine followed.

  • Amanda Hooton

For better or adverse, Labor needs to toughen up

There is a parallel between the Albanese government and Joe Biden’s tenure. Both have been reasonably successful in policy delivery but their “nice” demeanour has been overshadowed by a forceful, divisive and ultimately dominating opposition.

A weekly market in Nyamata. The south-eastern town is the site of a memorial to the 1994 genocide.

Three decades after the genocide, Rwanda is a nation transformed

Years after reporting on a broken country, a journalist revisits Rwanda to see its famous gorillas – and discovers a land in the midst of renewal.

  • Jennifer Byrne
Keir Starmer

English riots, social media and the running sore of British politics

Young people attracted by social media to the thrill of violence rather than the social engineering and ideology have joined racist right-wingers to try and take over the streets of England.

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