Rwanda has said it is pulling out of a central African regional bloc after a diplomatic row over its involvement in the ...

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo passed a law in January 2025 to lead efforts to establish the largest ...

While the regions ... The name the Sea of Japan rose to prominence during Japan's imperial era, including its 35-year colonization of Korea. Tokyo maintains that it was present in maps before ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million ... Kabila was installed as president of Zaire and changed the country’s name back to The Democratic Republic of Congo.

US President Donald Trump is set to name his daughter’s father-in-law as his special envoy for the Great Lakes region in East Africa, according to two people familiar with the plans. It comes as ...

Stearns is the author of The War That Doesn't Say Its Name ... in the DRC is part of trend of fraying multilateralism and humanitarianism in the world. The escalation in the eastern Congo could spill ...

A civil society source in the region told the Reuters news agency on Friday: "The city of Bukavu can no longer hold." Image: Map of DRC showing Goma, Bukavu and Kinshasa Bukavu is the provincial ...

"If you're using Google Maps on the web, the names are based on the region you select in your Search settings or your device's location, if you haven't selected one." The Interior Department ...

Google has previously said it has “a longstanding practice of applying name changes ... a nod to the region’s native population. But that change hasn’t been made on Google Maps as of ...

Google has officially changed the name ... in other regions, as well. According to Google, both “applicable names will be shown.” “When official names vary between countries, Maps users ...

That's right, there's now technical disagreement on the name of a major body of water ... hurdles exist when you're trying to region-set map labels for the world. Someone is opening Google Maps ...