In news from Africa, a UN convoy carrying aid workers and medical supplies has crossed into a rebel-held zone of eastern Congo on Monday on a mission to help tens of thousands of civilians displaced by fighting. The UN refugee agency has said it feared that at least 50,000 displaced civilians may have abandoned unprotected camps around Rutshuru. A ceasefire in the area was recently declared, but aid agencies have called the humanitarian situation “catastrophic” and say that tens of thousands of civilians are in urgent need of shelter, food, water and medical care.