DRC Won’t Attend Own Donor Conference

The United Nations is holding a special meeting in Geneva on Friday to raise funds for the humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Aid agencies say over 5 million people have had to leave their homes because of fighting in the country. We hear from Congolese refugees in western Uganda.

US President Donald Trump says a decision on action in Syria will be made "fairly soon". He told reporters that he and his team were looking "very, very seriously" at the situation, following an alleged chemical attack on the town of Douma.

Algeria is a nation in shock. More than 250 men, women and children died when a heavily loaded military plane crashed on Wednesday, making it the worst air crash in the nation’s history.