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DRC three civilians and five soldiers killed in an attack near Beni. 

Five civilians and three Congolese soldiers were killed Friday in an attack attributed to Ugandan rebels against a military camp near Beni in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. A May-Moya, a town in northern North Kivu province about 45 km north of Beni, the photographer saw the bodies of victims of the attack and those of eight lattice attackers killed in the response of armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC).

According to a senior officer on the spot, the assailants, suspected of belonging to the Ugandan rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces Muslims (ADF), attacked the town around 16:00 (14:00 GMT) Friday.
They attacked the army camp, they attacked with automatic weapons, before retreating after several hours of fighting and setting fire to several houses, added the officer. The AFP photographer saw about twenty houses destroyed by fire.The ADF are accused of being responsible for a series of massacres that killed more than 400 deaths since October in Beni (350 km north of Goma, capital of North Kivu) and its surroundings.The succession of these attacks and the inability of authorities to stop it in May caused a popular protest movement in the area where residents have accused the? State, to President Joseph Kabila of failing in its duty to protect the population. 
The Catholic Bishops of eastern Congo had complained to them that "security, peace and territorial integrity do not seem to have been a priority in the strategy of public authorities" in the Beni region. The commander of the military operation against armed groups in the north of North Kivu, particularly in charge of the fight against the ADF, was eventually replaced in early June, according to a promise made seven months earlier by the head of? State.
Opposed to the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, the militia of the ADF are accused of serious and repeated violations of human rights in the DRC, and to engage in a lucrative timber traffic.

Kigali opposition refuge, Burundian journalists and activists. 

Within weeks, many opposition figures, civil society and Burundian media in Rwanda have fled the deleterious pre-electoral climate in their country. At the risk inflaming already tense relations between Kigali and Bujumbura, formerly allies.
Sitting in a small café in the Rwandan capital where he now has his habits, Alexandre Niyungeko, president of the? Union of Burundian journalists, chose Rwanda for its geographical proximity and because it? S the country he knows best .
"I came several times in Kigali for professional reasons," he said, confident feel more "secure" here."It? Sa fairly controlled country. Difficult to see our critics cross the border without the knowledge of the Rwandan authorities, "he said, assuring that he left his country because of threats against his family, Monday's legislative approach and the presidential election of 15 July.
Burundian independent journalists were already in the sights of power before the start of the political crisis triggered by the end of April the candidacy of President Pierre Nkurunziza to a third term.
Since then, they say they fear for their lives, as the heavyweights of civil society, at the forefront of the protest movement against this new mandate, and some political opponents.
The decision to flee was imposed when their media stopped broadcasting for a failed attempt coup mid-May. The independent radio stations had relayed the message of the coup and were destroyed, and the power to issue prevents again. 

But the defender of Human Rights recognizes that the Rwandan attitude to the current crisis in Burundi has also influenced his choice.

President Kagame has adopted a hard line, edged with the retaining his African peers: questioning the legitimacy of Pierre Nkurunziza, he asked him how he could stay in power if the people opposed it.

This position has a little soured a very tense relationship since 2014, when the bodies were bound mysteriously appeared on the surface of a lake between the two countries. The Burundian justice had said that the bodies were from Rwanda, to the fury of Kigali.

Moreover, for several months, Kigali cease? Bujumbura accused of? Having sided with the Hutu rebel Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), assets in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo since the end of 1994. The FDLR genocide which rely former genocidaires remain the bane of Kigali. 

More than 40 journalists from independent media are Burundi in Kigali. Some prepare a program on the Burundian news which will be broadcast live on several Rwandan radio regularly.

"The Burundian public is deprived of? Information? S one way to get around" the lack of media on site, explains Patrick Nduwinama, director of the private radio Burundian Bonesha, exiled in Kigali. L? Will broadcast "Burundians in Rwanda? S get information from home," he said, slipping the Rwandan waves are receivable in northern Burundi.