• How Trump's funding freeze is affecting American farmers

    How Trump's funding freeze is affecting American farmers

    Mar 24, 2025 10:20 PM EDT

    ... Krug: Right. It would just take us a lot longer to decide that we would want to do that. William Brangham: In April, Hannah Smith-Brubaker's organization will be furloughing almost all its employees. And last week, it joined a new lawsuit against the Trump administration.On top of ...

  • Congo's foreign minister describes unstable conditions as rebels seize territory

    Congo's foreign minister describes unstable conditions as rebels seize territory

    Jan 30, 2025 11:25 PM EDT

    Therese Kayikwamba Wagner: So, the Rwandan Defense Forces have been occupying very strategic areas in Eastern DRC. I want to speak about Rubaya. Rubaya is mined in all of the region. According to United Nations experts, Rwandan Defense Forces have used forced labor to force labor to force children, women ...

  • Thousands forced to flee fighting in Congo Rwanda-backed rebels capture key city of Goma

    Thousands forced to flee fighting in Congo Rwanda-backed rebels capture key city of Goma

    Jan 27, 2025 07:11 PM EDT

    ... key for transporting supplies, has been shut following the fighting. Rwanda’s state television also showed several Congolese soldiers surrendering in the Rwandan town of Rubavu after crossing the border from Goma. UN and other countries call on the rebels to withdraw After an emergency meeting late Sunday, the U ...

  • Congo wants UN peacekeepers to leave, but endless war complicates that

    Congo wants UN peacekeepers to leave, but endless war complicates that

    Oct 29, 2024 06:23 PM EDT

    ... ion batteries for electric vehicles and smartphones. It also has substantial gold, diamond, copper and cobalt reserves. In May, M23 fighters seized the town of Rubaya, which holds deposits of tantalum — used in electronics, including Apple devices —and extracted from coltan. The area is estimated to supply more than 15 ...

  • Young Afghan musicians showcase talent and resilience after being forced from the country

    Young Afghan musicians showcase talent and resilience after being forced from the country

    Aug 30, 2024 10:25 PM EDT

    Jeffrey Brown: Students studied violin, cello and other Western classical instruments, also rubab, sitar and more from the Afghan musical tradition. Ahmad Sarmast: There was two objectives, to encourage Afghan people to pick up their own instruments and to learn their own musical culture. There was to show them that ...

  • M23 rebels seize key smartphone mineral mining town in eastern Congo

    M23 rebels seize key smartphone mineral mining town in eastern Congo

    May 03, 2024 07:51 PM EDT

    ... M23 rebel group during a joint press conference with Tshisekedi in Paris. Onesphore Sematumba, an analyst with the International Crisis Group, said the capture of Rubaya was a significant development in the conflict. “Rubaya has mining deposits and without doubt this will allow M23 to exploit them,” he told the ...

  • 2 men arrested in connection with Ugandan Olympic runner's killing in Kenya, police say

    2 men arrested in connection with Ugandan Olympic runner's killing in Kenya, police say

    Jan 01, 2024 06:39 PM EDT

    ... Muthee's decomposing body was found at a male Ethiopian athlete's house in 2022. The athlete is the main suspect in her death but has not been apprehended.Rwandan runner Rubayita Siragi was killed in August in what police believe was a fight with another athlete over a woman.

  • Rescuers find more victims of Mount Marapi's sudden eruption, toll rises to 22

    Rescuers find more victims of Mount Marapi's sudden eruption, toll rises to 22

    Dec 05, 2023 03:37 PM EDT

    ... blocked sunlight, and authorities recommended that people wear masks to protect themselves from the ash. About 1,400 people live on Marapi’s slopes in Rubai and Gobah Cumantiang, the nearest villages, about 5 to 6 kilometers (3 to 3.7 miles) from the peak. Marapi is known for sudden ...

  • News Wrap: Debt limit debate still deadlocked as economist warns of default risks

    News Wrap: Debt limit debate still deadlocked as economist warns of default risks

    May 04, 2023 10:50 PM EDT

    ... people gathered to lay flowers and say prayers. Many expressed shock that it could happen in a country where mass shootings are rare.    Branislav Grubaci, Belgrade Resident (through translator):  The overwhelming feeling I have is that this tragedy is of cosmic proportions. The horror of it is indescribable. We ...

  • Evidence of Russian war crimes mounts as invasion of Ukraine drags on

    Evidence of Russian war crimes mounts as invasion of Ukraine drags on

    Dec 30, 2022 07:21 PM EDT

    ... international courts. He says he is also focused on another goal -- compiling an incontrovertible record of Russia’s savagery that the world cannot ignore. Yulia Truba wants the same thing. Her husband was one of the first men Russian soldiers tortured and killed in Bucha. She said she wants to ...