Democratic Republic of Congo

During his traditional Easter Sunday message to people all over the world, Pope Francis called for peace and tolerance.

He pleaded for peace especially in the Holy Land, Ukraine, Libya, Yemen, Nigeria, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, as quoted by the BBC.

Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders has drawn criticism from minority groups for blackening his face during a charity rally in Brussels in which participants dress up in what they say are the clothes of 19th century African noblemen.
   

Another year of courageous documentary filmmaking is about to reveal itself: the 17th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century has officially started and it promises to offer some of the most striking samples of the genre.

By Harry van Versendaal

Hubert Sauper and Alexandru Solomon are but a couple of the filmmakers heading to this year's Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (TDF), according to organizers as they unveiled the lineup of tributes to be screened at the annual international festival in the northern port city, this year from March 13 to 22.

The African Union called Jan. 30 for a regional five-nation force of 7,500 troops to defeat the "horrendous" rise of Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist militants.
 
The call for collective action came as leaders of the 54-member bloc opened their two-day annual summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, where they were addressing a string of crises across the continent.
 

Military medical team joins peacekeepers in Africa

BELGRADE -- A contingent of Serbia's military doctors departed for the Central African Republic on Thursday.

They will provide medical assistance to the UN peacekeeping mission within the operation MINUSCA.

BELGRADE - A contingent of Serbia's military doctors departed for the Central African Republic on Thursday, where they will provide medical assistance to the UN peacekeeping mission within the operation MINUSCA.

About 100 people were slaughtered last week in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the latest massacre to shake the restive region, lawmakers told AFP on Nov. 24.
      

A doctor said to be "extremely ill" after being infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone was being treated in the United States on Nov. 16, while the world's most powerful economies vowed to "extinguish" the deadly epidemic.
      

Ebola screening at Serbian airports "not rigorous"

BELGRADE -- The World Health Organization has recently said that Europe is "very well prepared" for a possible Ebola outbreak.

However, experiences of travelers arriving from Africa show that airport checks are "not very rigorous."