Wild social media: Kenya tells TikTok to prove it is complying with privacy laws
Odanga Madung, a researcher at the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation, said the problems described by Kindiki were widespread across social media platforms.
China, Russia veto US resolution calling on UN Security Council to order immediate ceasefire in Gaza
Before the vote, US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said it would be a “historic mistake” for the council not to adopt the resolution. Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, also speaking before the vote, called on members not to vote in favour of the resolution.
Run-up to India’s elections gets murkier as Delhi chief minister is arrested in liquor graft case
The arrest means the main leaders of the decade-old Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) are in jail, following the arrests last year of two of Kejriwal’s deputies in the same case, which the party has called “dirty politics”.
Survivors’ graphic account of Burkina Faso’s military attack on village exposes atrocities by government forces
Most attacks – including the slaying of children by soldiers at a military base last year, uncovered in an investigation – go unpunished and unreported in a nation run by a repressive leadership that silences perceived dissidents.
President Museveni appoints son commander of Uganda military fuelling talk of imminent ‘hereditary rule’
Kainerugaba has most recently been serving as a senior presidential advisor in charge of special operations, after his father removed him as infantry commander in 2022. At the time, Kainerugaba was responsible for a series of offensive tweets, including an unprovoked one in which he threatened to capture the capital of neighbouring Kenya. He has previously served as the commander of an elite group of special forces protecting the first family.
