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- MAINA MWAURA
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- JOHN SEMAKULA
Kampala, Uganda
Uganda is mourning Catholic Archbishop of Kampala, Dr Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, who has died at the age of 68.
Lwanga’s personal doctor pronounced him dead a few minutes after 9am local time on Saturday after his body was discovered in his room. However, it was not until
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- STEPHANIE NEBEHAY
Geneva, Switzerland
Reuters
A record 27.3 million people in Democratic Republic of Congo, or about one-third of its population, are suffering from acute hunger, largely because of conflict and the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
The figure makes Congo home
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- JEFFREY HELLER
Jerusalem, Israel
Reuters
A sceptical President tasked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday with forming a new government, after another inconclusive election deepened political stalemate in Israel.
The country's longest-serving leader, in power consecutively since 2009, now faces the tough challenge of enlisting enough allies for a governing
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- ROSHAN ABRAHAM and ANURAG MAAN
Coronavirus-related deaths worldwide crossed three million on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, as the latest global resurgence of COVID-19 infections is challenging vaccination efforts across the globe.
Worldwide COVID-19 deaths are rising once again, especially in Brazil and India. Health officials blame more infectious variants that
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- BEN MAKORI
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- TOM HOGUE
More than 1,800 inmates escaped from a Nigeria prison after an attack by gunmen carrying rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns, explosives and rifles, the BBC reported on Tuesday.
The attackers used explosives to blast the administrative block of the prison in the south-eastern town of Owerri and enter
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- CATARINA DEMONY
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- SIMON LEWIS and HUMEYRA PAMUK
Washington DC, US
Reuters
The United States is looking into reports of human rights abuses and atrocities in Ethiopia's Tigray region, the US State Department said on Monday.
Department spokesman Ned Price told a news briefing that the United States is "gravely concerned" about accounts last week by
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- LUIS ANDRES HENAO and MARIAM FAM
A coalition of faith leaders and activists on Monday demanded the elimination of the Senate filibuster, wading into a crucial debate in Washington with a 50-50 Senate and President Joe Biden eyeing ambitious legislation on expanding voting rights, stemming gun violence and other proposals that face opposition
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- ALEJANDRA MOLINA
Los Angeles, US
RNS
Six Catholic elementary schools in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles are closing at the end of the 2020-21 school year due to financial hardships heightened by COVID-19.
“These six schools had been trying to overcome financial challenges long before the pandemic,” said Paul Escala,
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- NAFISA ELTAHIR and KHALID ABDELAZIZ
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- SARAH MARSH
Havana, Cuba
Reuters
During some summers, as the Caribbean water temperatures climb, the luminous coral colonies of gold, green and blue that ring the island nation of Cuba give way to patches of skeletal white.
The technicolour streaks of darting tropical fish flash less frequently. The rasping sounds
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- MANUEL MUCARI
Maputo, Mozambique
Reuters
The town in northern Mozambique that Islamic State-linked insurgents attacked late last month is now secure after the military killed a significant number of militants and cleared one final area, an army spokesman and a provincial official said.
"We have completed the clearing [of the
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- YOS SERAN and AGUSTINUS BEO DA COSTA
Malaka, Indonesia
Reuters
Floods and landslides triggered by tropical cyclone Seroja in a cluster of islands in southeast Indonesia and East Timor have killed 113 people, with many still unaccounted for and thousands displaced, officials said on Monday.
At least 86 deaths were reported on several islands
