eastern

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The airport in North Kivu's provincial capital Goma, which once helped funnel urgently needed aid into the eastern DRC by air, has been shut since the M23 seized the city in January 2025.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

The boys' father had reported them missing from their home in Colmar in eastern France on 11 May and France had issued a pan-European request for help.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

The district is located in rural eastern Kentucky and had roughly 1,700 students enrolled in the 2024-25 school year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

But the case involved a "person coming from Kisangani", a major city in the eastern Tshopo province where no Ebola infections from the current outbreak have so far been recorded.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

“I have a hundred cases of fire wine to take to the eastern reach, and ormolu pearls to take to Archos.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell