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Hundreds of Rwandans who fled during the 1994 genocide have returned home from eastern Congo, the UN refugee agency said Saturday, as violence escalates in the region.
The UNHCR said 360 refugees — mostly women and children — were repatriated in buses provided by Rwandan authorities. Aid workers from Save the Children and local officials helped oversee the transfer. The group is part of a larger plan to return 2,000 Rwandan nationals.
“We are happy to welcome our compatriots. They are a valuable workforce for the country’s development,” said Prosper Mulindwa, the mayor of Rubavu, at a border ceremony.
The returnees are being taken to a transit center where they will receive support and reintegration assistance.
Many fled Rwanda in 1994 during the genocide, when extremist Hutu forces killed up to a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Although most returned in the late 1990s, thousands remained in Congo. Some later joined armed groups that continue to destabilize eastern Congo.
Recent advances by the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group — reportedly supported by 4,000 Rwandan troops, according to UN experts — have intensified the conflict and deepened the humanitarian crisis.
The repatriation is part of a longstanding agreement between Rwanda, Congo and the UNHCR. Rwandan officials say more than 101,000 refugees have returned since the pact was signed, including over 1,500 so far this year.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
Hamas said on Tuesday it was ready to reach a deal to end the war in Gaza based on President Donald Trump's plan but still has demands, as Qatar's prime minister and senior U.S. mediators headed to Egypt to join indirect negotiations between the Palestinian militant group and Israel.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer begins a two-day visit to India on Wednesday, joined by more than a hundred leaders from the business, culture and university sectors in an effort to promote a recently signed trade deal.
The death toll from a landslide that struck a private bus in India's mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh has risen to 15, with one child still missing, officials and police said on Wednesday.
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) said on Wednesday its vessels were "under attack" by the Israeli military, which intercepted several boats sailing toward Gaza.
The newly elected mayor of Herdecke in northwestern Germany, Social Democrat Iris Stalzer, was seriously injured in a knife attack near her home by an unknown assailant or assailants.
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