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BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo More than 40 civilians were killed on Monday when a militia attacked a camp for displaced people in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a local official and the head of a civil society group said.Jean Richard Lenga, chief of the Bahema Badjere district in Ituri Province, said members of the Cooperative for the Development of the Congo, or CODECO, massacred 46 people with knives and firearms and burned others in their homes in the middle of the camp.

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One of the anti-Kremlin groups responsible for an armed incursion into Russia this week, the Russian Volunteer Corps, is led by a far-right extremist described by German officials and humanitarian groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, as a neo-Nazi.The Volunteer Corps, made up of Russians who oppose Vladimir V. Putin's war, does not have any public affiliation with the Ukrainian Army.

Thousands of Sudanese refugees watched as the first emergency aid workers reached a village in Chad, days after escaping from their embattled country.Mothers tended to toddlers, while men listed their most urgent needs water, vaccines, tarps for the looming rainy season.The fighting that erupted in Sudan's capital last month has ricocheted far beyond the city's borders, worsening instability in the restive western region of Darfur and sending tens of thousands of people fleeing to neighboring countries, including Chad in Central Africa.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an armed group based in Gaza, was the target of Israeli airstrikes early Tuesday, and was at the center of a flare-up in violence between Israel and the Gaza Strip last summer.The second-largest Palestinian armed resistance group in Gaza, Islamic Jihad has often been eclipsed by the larger Hamas movement, which has controlled and governed Gaza since 2007.

The meeting is taking place following the Chinese and Afghan foreign ministers' arrival in Islamabad.. Pakistan is set to host a day-long trilateral dialogue with China and Afghanistan in Islamabad after the arrival of the Chinese and Afghan foreign ministers, Qin Gang and Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, on Friday.

The Pentagon said on Tuesday that a Russian warplane struck an unarmed American MQ-9 Reaper surveillance drone over the Black Sea just after dawn on Tuesday, hitting its propeller and causing its American operators to bring it down in international waters.Russia said that the drone was flying toward its territory and denied that it had used force.

Rwanda has fired on a Congolese military aircraft it alleges violated its airspace in a new escalation of tensions between the neighbors that has set off alarm across central Africa.A Rwandan government statement said defensive measures were taken against a Sukhoi-25 from Congo on Tuesday evening, and it urged Congo to stop this aggression.

The move comes after the Sahel country's military rulers demanded that Paris withdraw its forces.France will withdraw its troops from Burkina Faso within a month after the West African country's military rulers asked it to leave, the French foreign ministry said, in a move that will further reduce its presence in a region facing growing violence from armed groups.

Relations between France and former colony Burkina Faso continue to deteriorate as violence continues in the Sahel.The French foreign ministry says it received a letter from the Burkinabe authorities in December requesting the departure of France's ambassador from Burkina Faso.The French ministry's spokeswoman confirmed to Reuters on Tuesday by email that it had received such a letter, but declined to give further details or say how it had responded.

The founder of the Russian private military company Wagner has accused France of being behind the bomb.The head of a Russian cultural centre in the Central African Republic (CAR) has been wounded by a parcel bomb in the capital, Bangui, Russian news agency TASS reported quoting a Russian embassy spokesman.

The military junta that controls Mali pardoned 49 Ivorian soldiers and suspended their prison sentences, ending a diplomatic dispute that highlighted the growing isolation of the West African country and its strained relations with its neighbors.The decision, announced late on Friday, came a week after the soldiers, who had been detained nearly six months ago, had received sentences of 20 years.

France's foreign ministry is standing by its ambassador amid mounting anti-French sentiment in Burkina Faso.France is backing its ambassador in Burkina Faso despite a request by authorities there to replace him amid growing anti-French sentiment.I would like to express my support and our support for our ambassador and for all the embassy staff, who are doing a remarkable job in conditions which, as you know, are difficult, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna told LCI TV on Thursday, adding that the letter had requested a change of envoy.

PARIS - A French citizen working in wildlife conservation has been released after being abducted two days earlier in northeastern Chad, France announced Sunday."France thanks Chadian authorities who worked towards the release," the Foreign Ministry said, adding that French diplomats remain "mobilized" to help Jerome Hugonnot and his family.

Paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland are subjecting young people to coercion, threats and sexual exploitation, a Westminster committee has heard.The region's Children's Commissioner Koulla Yiasouma described both loyalist and dissident republican paramilitaries using young people to do their dirty work, such as drug dealing and civil disobedience.

Mali's military government has been strengthening its relationship with Russia as anti-French sentiments peak in Bamako.Mali expects Russia to send shipments of fuel, fertiliser and food worth around $100 million to Mali in the coming weeks, the West African country's economy minister, Alousseini Sanou, says.