The US and Ukrainian sides held talks in Berlin at the start of the week and with European leaders on Monday night. 

Congolese in Uvira came out onto the streets on Saturday, opening businesses and cleaning up streets and infrastructure after the M23 group advanced into the strategic city in DRC's South Kivu.

Mali's Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Boubacar Diane, declared the development of the Sahel region in line with the dynamics of the global energy industry as one of the main objectives of the Sahel States Alliance at the meeting of the AES Ministers of Mines, Petroleum, and Energy in Niamey on Wednesday.