Bernie Sanders and wife Jane with media in Rome

"I'm so excited and proud to be here with other people who are trying to create a moral economy,"  US Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said upon his arrival in Rome. He left New York  immediately after a heated debate with his rival Hillary Clinton. He is at the Vatican to attend a conference on social, economic and environmental issues at Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.

The visit comes just four days before a crucial state primary contest in New York, where 291 delegates are at stake. Before leaving, on Thursday night, the

Martin Kobler, MONUSCO

Despised by the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, challenged by United Nations Security Council members, the United Nations Secretary General Special Representative in the DRC, Martin Kobler,  has finally been relieved of his post as the Head of MONUSCO. His term will end in October 2015 and will not be renewed. MONUSCO is the UN peacekeeping mission in DRC.

All, if not most of Martin Kobler's woos started in Summer 2014, after the Intervention Forces Brigade, known as FIB, composed of troops

DRC President Felix Tshisekedi and China President Xi Jinping, May 25, 2023

On May 25, 2023 Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi visited China and (China), and exchanged with the Congolese community living in China. During his visit that was officially about the economic cooperation between DRC and China, Felix Tshisekedi evoked the invasion of DRC by Rwandan troops under the cover of M23 rebels, the collaboration between the EAC force and the M23 rebels, and the potential open wars with Rwanda. After the visit, many questions were raised regarding the peace in the Great Region of Africa and the role of the super powers in the conflict between DRC and Rwanda.?

Paul Kagame, Louise Mishikiwabo receiving a delegation from the United Arab Emirates in Kigali in June 2015

The Rwandan Government is considering sending demobilized Rwandan Defenses Forces (RDF) soldiers and surrendered former Rwandan rebels to prop troops fighting in Yemen up, sources in Kigali tell AfroAmerica Network. According to the sources, the agreement is still under discussion between Rwandan officials and  negotiators from the coalition in the Middle East fighting

US President Obama in Kuala Lumpur Vows to Defeat Terrorism

"In that regard, we need to unite. We need to show global solidarity to address the common enemy of ISIL, Daesh, some other extremists and terrorist groups ... [we] highly commended the leadership of the Russian Federation together with the United States to address some of the root causes of terrorism," the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said, during the Annual East Asia Summit in Kuala Lumpur, calling on Russia and the United States to join their efforts to combat terrorism.

Jan. 8, 1959 Associated Press file photo; Cuba's Fidel Castro speaks at the Batista military base "Columbia," now known as Ciudad Libertad, in Cuba.

Fidel Castro, the former Revolutionary leader of Cuba has died. The news was announced by his brother Raoul Castro, the current leader of Cuba. 

"The commander in chief of the Cuban revolution died at 22:29 hours this evening," President Raul Castro said on Friday, November 25, 2016.

President Raoul Castro said, in a message to the Cuban nation the nation broadcasted on state television that Fidel Castro had died and will  be cremated on Saturday, November 26,