Nepal, Sudan, Rwanda-DRC.

Today's three stories you should know.

Nepal

Rescuers are closing in on the location of a passenger plane that crashed in Nepal with 22 people on board, officials said today. Rescue teams are trying to reach an area where locals reported they had seen a fire. The Tara Air plane went down in a remote area during a flight from the resort town of Pokhara to the mountain town of Jomsom. Nepal has a poor air safety record. A Tara Air plane of the exact same type, flying the exact same route crashed after takeoff in 2016, killing all 23 people aboard.

More from Al Jazeera here.

Sudan

The UN envoy for Sudan said today he was “appalled” by the killing of two young pro-democracy demonstrators in the capital Khartoum yesterday. “Once again: it is time for the violence to stop,” Volker Perthes said on Twitter. As mentioned in several previous newsletters, protests have persisted since a military coup last October. At least 98 people have been killed and over 4,300 wounded since then in regular demonstrations, according to a doctors’ union that is aligned with the protesters. Most of those killed were shot dead by security forces or died after inhaling tear gas.

More from AP here.

Rwanda-DRC

A worrying situation is developing in east/central Africa as relations deteriorate between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. DRC is accusing Rwanda of supporting a Congolese rebel group, the M23, in a renewed offensive, citing the presence of heavy weapons as proof the armed group is getting outside support. Kigali has denied the accusations, saying Congo’s battle with the M23 is an intra-Congo issue despite the fact that M23 often operates in the borderlands between the two nations. Senegal’s President Macky Sall, in his capacity as chair of the African Union, today called for a dialogue aimed at defusing the rapidly escalating tensions.

More from Reuters here.