African Union troops exit from Somalia continues with handover of Qorilow base to national army
This was the fifth military facility handed over as part of the second phase of the ATMIS troop drawdown.
Piracy off Somali coast is on the on the rebound, but a full scale return is unlikely, experts say
Following previous threats, local authorities, experts and organisations tracking piracy globally warned that Somali pirates retained the capacity to launch attacks. This is also the current assessment of the International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Centre, which acts to suppress piracy and armed robbery at sea.
Darfur genocide: Ethnic Masalit survivors tell how Sudan’s Arab army commanders hunted them down yelling, ‘slaves we’ll kill you’
Violence flared anew in early November. Hundreds of Masalit men were rounded up by Arab forces, according to dozens of survivors. Some of these captives were executed in the outlying Ardamata district of El Geneina, according to at least 30 witnesses.
When Sudan’s army commanders waged war on Masalit tribe, they raped women and slit children’s throats, then killed men
Survivors identified several other key players who led RSF and militia operations in the city: Idriss Hassan, a former RSF commander of West Darfur and currently a senior RSF officer; Massar Aseel, a top Arab tribal leader; the deputy of the slain governor, Al Tijani Karshoum; Arab militia leader Moussa Angir; and a militiaman known as Marfaeen, or “the Hyena.”
Failed state: Irony of Uganda being $12 trillion rich in gold but proud to export slave labour to Middle East
In any case behind every problem is the problem of leadership and, by extension, governance. The decisions the leaders and governors take or do not take, the choices in governance that the governors prefer to apply in governing a country and its resources (human and non-human); how they govern ecological-environmental systems on which all other systems depend for their structures, functionalities and futurities; and the administrative styles and practices
Questions raised over Del Monte pineapple farm as Kenya Police probe murder of 4 villagers
Del Monte said at the time it had initiated investigations, supported by an independent review by a specialist human rights consultancy.
Scientists: Monkeypox flare up in Congo via sex worries WHO, raises stigma risk against gay men
WHO officials said they identified the first sexually transmitted cases of the more severe type of mpox in Congo last December, shortly after a resident of Belgium who “identified himself as a man who has sexual relations with other men” arrived in Kinshasa, the Congolese capital. The UN health agency said five other people who had sexual contact with the man later became infected with mpox.
62 people arrested as pro-Palestinian protesters block airport roads in New York and Los Angeles
Twenty-six people in the protest were arrested for disorderly conduct and impeding vehicular traffic, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey dispatched two buses to help travellers caught in the backup reach the airport, agency spokesperson Steve Burns said.
No let up as Israeli attacks in Gaza add to heavy Palestinian toll in war on Hamas
The Gaza health ministry said the recorded toll in the enclave was 21,110 killed and 55,243 wounded in Israeli attacks. Nearly all of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been driven from their homes.
Crude oil price drops almost two per cent as investors watch Red Sea developments
Oil output in Russia, the third largest producer in the world after the United States and Saudi Arabia, is expected to be steady or even to increase next year as Moscow has largely overcome Western sanctions, analysts said.
