Conflict and insecurity have dominated campaign discourse in the DRC and could stop displaced people from voting.
No group has claimed responsibility yet in a city that witnessed one of the world’s worst school attacks in 2014.
An official blamed ISIL for the attack, which took place in Diyala province.
Observers say Somalia’s accession to the bloc comes with multiple opportunities but also multiple challenges.
If negotiations succeed, the rebels will end their 50-year armed struggle and transform into a political movement.
Residents, aid workers and observers fear ethnic strife among the various armed groups.
The negotiations in Tanzania followed talks in April and May that also failed to produce an agreement.
The ADF was formed in Uganda in the 1990s before moving over the border and has been blamed for killings in the DRC too.
Gunmen attacked before dawn, burning houses as people slept. No group has claimed responsibility.
‘Every second, every minute, our anguish grows,’ Diaz wrote in a post begging the rebel group ELN to release his father.
Diaz’s parents were kidnapped on Saturday in the town of Barrancas, although his mother was rescued within hours.
Rebel groups attack military in 12 towns in Shan state, with local media reporting a number of casualties.
The deaths come as former colonial power France prepares to withdraw a counterinsurgency force stationed in the country.
Indigenous ‘Minga’ collective urges action to stem a rising wave of violence in their communities across Colombia.
