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Civilians in DR Congo's Sake suffer from rebel M23 offensive

STORY: Civilians in DR Congo's Sake suffer from rebel M23 offensive SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 13, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 14, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:29 LOCATION: Kinshasa CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of people fleeing Sake towards Goma, eastern DR Congo 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Swahili): EUSTACHE GASORE, Displaced person 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Swahili): SON AMANI, Displaced person 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Swahili): GUILAIN IRUNVA, Displaced person STORYLINE: For several weeks, residents of Sake, a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), have been living under the intensive exchange of heavy weapons fire as fighting flared up between government troops and March 23 Movement (M23) rebels, Xinhua correspondents observed on the ground. Located about 20 km from Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, much of which is occupied by the M23, Sake City is considered to be the last barrier for Goma, which was taken by M23 rebels in late 2012. The DRC army and military partners such as the Southern African Development

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Paris Fashion Week - Hermes - Arrival

Jane Birkin attends Hermes' Fall-Winter 2012-2013 Ready-To-Wear collection show held at Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, on March 4, 2012. Photo by Alban Wyters/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2 years after quake

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture in October 2008 (top), on Feb. 26, 2012 (center), about a year after a nuclear crisis triggered by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and on March 3, 2013. From back to front are the buildings housing the No. 1 to No. 4 reactors. The bottom photo shows a cover on the No. 1 reactor building used to prevent radioactive particles from being dispersed. Cranes are at work at No. 3 and No. 4 reactor buildings.

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2 years after quake

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture in December 2000 (top), on Feb. 26, 2012 (center), about a year after a nuclear crisis triggered by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and on March 3, 2013. From right to left are the buildings housing the No. 1 to No. 4 reactors.

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Offshore wind turbine starts work

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in October 2012 shows a 126-meter-high wind turbine, with a 92-meter-diameter bladed wheel, built in the Pacific Ocean some 3 kilometers off Choshi, Chiba Prefecture. The turbine began to generate power on March 4, 2013. It is capable of generating around 2,400 kilowatt-hours.

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TEPCO starts removing fuel from Fukushima Daini reactor

TOMIOKA, Japan - Fuel assemblies are removed from the No. 4 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daini plant in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 2, 2012. TEPCO showed to the media its work to remove fuel from the reactor to the spent fuel pool located next to it, the first time it has done so since a huge earthquake and tsunami hit the complex and crippled the Fukushima Daiichi plant in March 2011.

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TEPCO starts removing fuel from Fukushima Daini reactor

TOMIOKA, Japan - Fuel assemblies (underwater, C) are carried into the spent fuel pool after being removed from the No. 4 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daini plant in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 2, 2012. TEPCO showed to the media its work to remove fuel from the reactor to the spent fuel pool located next to it, the first time it has done so since a huge earthquake and tsunami hit the complex and crippled the Fukushima Daiichi plant in March 2011.

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TEPCO starts removing fuel from Fukushima Daini reactor

TOMIOKA, Japan - Fuel assemblies (underwater, C) are removed from the No. 4 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daini plant in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture on Oct. 2, 2012. TEPCO showed to the media its work to remove fuel from the reactor to the spent fuel pool located next to it, the first time it has done so since a huge earthquake and tsunami hit the complex and crippled the Fukushima Daiichi plant in March 2011.

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Fukushima reactor pressure vessel's lid removed

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter at 10:23 a.m. on Sept. 13, 2012 shows the lid (top L) to the pressure vessel of the No. 4 reactor removed by a crane at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture. The March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami triggered a nuclear crisis at the plant.

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Fukushima reactor pressure vessel's lid removed

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter at 10:20 a.m. on Sept. 13, 2012 shows the lid (bottom) to the pressure vessel of the No. 4 reactor removed by a crane at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture. The two objects at top are the lid to the containment vessel. The March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami triggered a nuclear crisis at the plant.

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the city of Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 4, 2012 (bottom).

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the city of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 7, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 4, 2012 (bottom).

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the city of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 10, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 4, 2012 (bottom).

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show a ballpark in the city of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (L), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 4, 2012 (R).

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show the Haramachi thermal power plant in the city of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (L), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 4, 2012 (R).

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show a coastal area stretching from the town of Shinchi, Fukushima Prefecture (front), to the town of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture (back), on March 28, 2011 (L), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 4, 2012 (R).

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show Sendai port in Miyagi Prefecture on March 25, 2011 (top), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 4, 2012 (bottom).

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Japan to go for 2013 WBC

OSAKA, Japan - Japan Professional Baseball Players Association Chairman Takahiro Arai speaks at a press conference in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Sept. 4, 2012. Two-time champion Japan will defend its title in March 2013 at the 2013 edition of the World Baseball Classic, Arai said.

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U.S., Japanese NGOs meet over tsunami debris in N. America

PORTLAND, United States - Hiroshi Kaneko (C) and Azusa Kojima (R) of the Japan Environmental Action Network scout for trash on a beach and discuss the problem of marine debris with Dave Pittenger (2nd from R) of the U.S.-based NPO Ocean Conservancy and Cannon Beach City Manager Rich Mays (2nd from L) on Aug. 4, 2012, in Cannon Beach, Oregon. The beach visit kicked off a three-day meeting between the Japanese and U.S. NGOs about debris from the March 2011 tsunami in Japan that is headed for North America.

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Oi plant's No. 4 reactor starts capacity operation

OBAMA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 4 reactor building (right) at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on July 25, 2012. The reactor, which is the second to go back online after all of Japan's commercial reactors were taken offline for regular checks in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident, started full-capacity power generation early on July 25 to ease electricity shortages in western Japan. The building housing the No. 3 reactor, the first to resume operation, is seen to the left.

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Oi plant's No. 4 reactor starts capacity operation

OBAMA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 4 reactor building (front) at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on July 25, 2012. The reactor, which is the second to go back online after all of Japan's commercial reactors were taken offline for regular checks in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident, started full-capacity power generation early on July 25 to ease electricity shortages in western Japan. The building housing the No. 3 reactor, the first to resume operation, is seen in the back.

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Oi No. 4 reactor begins generating power

OI, Japan - Photo shows the No. 4 reactor (L) at the Oi nuclear power plant of Kansai Electric Power Co. in Fukui Prefecture on July 21, 2012. The No. 4 reactor started generating and transmitting electricity later in the day. The reactor is the second to go back online after all of Japan's commercial reactors were taken offline for regular checks in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. The first to resume operation was the Oi plant's No. 3 reactor (R).

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Oi reactor regains criticality

OI, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 4 reactor (front) of the Oi nuclear power station in Fukui Prefecture on July 19, 2012. The reactor reached criticality that morning following its reactivation the night before by its operator, Kansai Electric Power Co. The reactor is the second to go back online after all of Japan's commercial reactors were taken offline for regular checks in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis. The first to resume operation was the Oi plant's No. 3 reactor (back) which was brought to full operation on July 9.

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Oi reactor regains criticality

OI, Japan - Photo shows the No. 4 reactor (L) of the Oi nuclear power station in Fukui Prefecture on July 19, 2012. The reactor reached criticality that morning following its reactivation the night before by its operator, Kansai Electric Power Co. The reactor is the second to go back online, after all of Japan's commercial reactors were taken offline for regular checks in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis. The first to resume operation was the Oi plant's No. 3 reactor (R) which was brought to full operation on July 9.

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2nd reactor restarted at Oi power plant

OI, Japan - Photo taken July 18, 2012, shows the No. 4 reactor building (L) at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture. The No. 4 reactor was restarted later, around 9 p.m., the same day, becoming only the second reactor to resume operation after being shut down for periodic checks since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March 2011. The building housing the No. 3 reactor, which the utility reactivated on July 1 and brought to full operation on July 9, can be seen to the right.

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2nd reactor restarted at Oi power plant

OI, Japan - Workers in the main control room reactivate the No. 4 reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, around 9 p.m. on July 18, 2012. The No. 4 reactor became the second reactor to resume operation after being shut down for periodic checks since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March 2011. (Pool photo)

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2nd reactor restarted at Oi power plant

OI, Japan - Security guards stand near the entrance to Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, at 7:52 p.m. on July 18, 2012. The No. 4 reactor at the plant was reactivated around 9 p.m. the same day, becoming only the second reactor to resume operation after being shut down for periodic checks since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March 2011.

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Another reactor at Oi power plant reactivated

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 9, 2012, shows the No. 4 reactor building (front) at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture. The No. 4 reactor was reactivated around 9 p.m. on July 18, becoming only the second reactor to resume operation after being shut down for periodic checks since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March 2011. The building housing the No. 3 reactor, which the utility reactivated on July 1 and brought to full operation on July 9, stands just behind.

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Another reactor at Oi power plant reactivated

OI, Japan - Senior Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Seishu Makino (front) attends a press conference in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on the afternoon of July 18, 2012. The No. 4 reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town was reactivated around 9 p.m. the same day, becoming only the second reactor to resume operation after being shut down for regular checks since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March 2011.

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S. Korea nuclear plant gets green light to resume operation

TOKYO, Japan - File photo from April 2012 shows the Gori 1 Nuclear Power Plant near Busan, South Korea. South Korean nuclear safety regulators on July 4, 2012, approved resumption of the plant that was suspended in March 2012 over safety concerns, following a blackout the previous month.

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Oi reactors

TOKYO, Japan - File photo in March 2012 shows (from R) No. 3 and No. 4 reactors of the Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda mentioned on June 8, 2012, the need to reactivate the two idled reactors at the Oi plant to prevent a power crunch this summer, in a stepped-up effort to secure public support and consent from Fukui Prefecture which hosts the plant.

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Partial lunar eclipse

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A partial lunar eclipse is observed over Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, at around 8 p.m. on June 4, 2012. The area was hit by the March 2011 quake and tsunami.

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Tiananmen Square on 23rd anniversary of massacre

BEIJING, China - Police officers march around Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4, 2012, the 23rd anniversary of the 1989 bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests.

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Tiananmen Square on 23rd anniversary of massacre

BEIJING, China - Police officers march at Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4, 2012, the 23rd anniversary of the 1989 bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests.

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Pro-democracy march in HK

HONG KONG, China - Photo shows a pro-democracy march in Hong Kong on May 27, 2012, ahead of the 23rd anniversary on June 4 of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident.

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Residents in Miyagi plant trees on hill made of disaster debris

SENDAI, Japan - People take part in tree-planting in Iwanuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 26, 2012, on a roughly 4-meter high hill made of debris from the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami and built as an experimental wall against tidal waves.

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Residents in Miyagi plant trees on hill made of disaster debris

SENDAI, Japan - A woman and her daughter take part in tree-planting in Iwanuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 26, 2012, on a roughly 4-meter high hill made of debris from the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami and built as an experimental wall against tidal waves.

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Oi nuclear power complex

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 2012 shows (from R to L) the Nos. 3 and 4 units at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power complex in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture.

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UNESCO honors children's newspaper

PARIS, France - Francesco Bandarin (rear C), assistant director general for culture at the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, poses for photos with Japanese children at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris on April 2, 2012, as the U.N. body honors the Fight Shimbun wall newspaper written by children in a northeastern Japanese city hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. In the front (from R) are first editor Risa Yoshida, 8, and her sister Mahiro, 4. In the center is second editor Satoko Oyama, 10, with her sister Kanako, 13, (rear L). To the right of Bandarin is coordinator and musician Misa Jonouchi.

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A's beat Mariners

TOKYO, Japan - Seattle Mariners first baseman Justin Smoak hits a solo homer during the seventh inning of the second game of the two-game season opening series against the Oakland Athletics at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on March 29, 2012. The Athletics won 4-1.

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A's beat Mariners

TOKYO, Japan - Oakland Athletics starter Bartolo Colon pitches in the second game of the two-game season opening series against the Seattle Mariners at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on March 29, 2012. The Athletics won 4-1.

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A's beat Mariners

TOKYO, Japan - Oakland Athletics center fielder Yoenis Cespedes hits a two-run homer during the seventh inning of the second game of the two-game season opening series against the Seattle Mariners at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on March 29, 2012. The Athletics won 4-1.

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A's beat Mariners

TOKYO, Japan - Seattle Mariners right fielder Ichiro Suzuki catches a fly ball hit by Oakland Athletics catcher Kurt Suzuki during the fifth inning of the second game of the two-game season opening series at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on March 29, 2012. The Athletics won 4-1.

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Nishikori to play Nadal

MIAMI, United States - Kei Nishikori of Japan acknowledges the crowd after defeating Lukas Rosol of Czech Republic 6-4, 6-2 in the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, Florida, on March 25, 2012. Nishikori will play world No. 2 Rafael Nadal of Spain in the last 16 of the tournament.

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Speed skating championships

HEERENVEEN, Netherlands - Martina Sablikova of the Czech Republic wins the women's 3,000 meters in 4:01.88 at the World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships in Heerenveen, Netherlands, on March 22, 2012.

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Japanese avant-garde artist Kusama

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken March 22, 2012, shows renowned Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama (in wheel chair) and her latest works, Yayoi-chan, a 10-meter-tall balloon girl, and Ring-Ring, a 4-meter-tall balloon dog, both decorated with her signature motif polka dots, in Roppongi Hills, Tokyo.

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Nissan to sell Datsun vehicles in India

TOKYO, Japan - Nissan Motor Co. President Carlos Ghosn speaks at a press conference at the Nissan headquarters in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on March 21, 2012. He said the automaker plans to release a model under its revived Datsun brand in India for about $4,000, or around 330,000 yen.

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Uniqlo store in Ginza

TOKYO, Japan - Fast Retailing Co. opens its largest Uniqlo store in Tokyo's posh Ginza district on March 16, 2012. The Uniqlo Ginza Store boasts 12 floors and a total retail space of 4,950 square meters.

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Fukushima Daiichi reactors

TOKYO, Japan - Photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show (from top) the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, and No. 4 reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on March 11, 2012, the first anniversary of the massive earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis.

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Fukushima nuclear plant a year after start of crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 4 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 11, 2012, exactly a year after the start of the nuclear crisis at the plant triggered by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and massive tsunami.