UN experts say Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern DRC have built a 30,000-strong force and are consolidating control over the occupied region. The assessment signals a deepening of the conflict despite international pressure on Kigali.

Russia says its forces captured 3 settlements in Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions; air defenses repelled 60 Ukrainian drones over Moscow area overnight, killing one infant in Yegoryevsk.

The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces took control of three settlements — Malinovka in the Donetsk region and Lesnoye and Rovnoye in the Zaporizhzhia region — on the frontline with Ukraine. Regional Governor Andrei Vorobyov said air defenses repelled 60 Ukrainian drones over the Moscow region overnight, killing a six-month-old infant in Yegoryevsk.

Ambush on humanitarian convoy in South Sudan's Duk County kills 17, wounds 9; five dead were NGO staff returning from WFP training

At least 17 people were killed and nine wounded in an attack on a humanitarian convoy in Duk County, South Sudan's Jonglei State, officials said. The county commissioner blamed armed Murle youth for the ambush on vehicles of the John Dau Foundation, which was transporting staff returning from a World Food Program training session.

Kenyan police fire live rounds during Nairobi protest, at least one dead, witnesses say. Officers opened fire as demonstrations escalated in the capital.

Kenyan police fire live rounds during a protest in Nairobi, with at least one person dead according to witnesses.

Three people exposed to Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo traced to province bordering South Sudan, raising risk of spillover into fragile state

Three people exposed to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been traced to a province bordering South Sudan, increasing the chances the virus could spill into one of the world's most fragile states.