‘You have guns, you don’t need a salary’ mantra sowed in national army by past regimes makes it difficult for UN forces to repulse Congo rebels
Criminality continues to bedevil the Congolese military, a major flaw that is cited in nearly every report of the UN Group of Experts on the DRC since 2011. Congolese security forces set up illegal roadblocks to extort citizens. They parcel off and control fiefdoms. They sell weapons to whomever is willing to pay, including the very forces they are fighting. They make deals with shadowy businessmen to pilfer minerals into neighbouring countries. These practices have long been the norm.
Ruto honoured with state visit for agreeing to deploy police to crime-ravaged, gang-infested Haiti
The United States for years has partnered with Kenya on counterterrorism efforts in Africa, including battling the extremist group al-Shabab. Kenya has participated in the Ukraine Defence Contact Group and an international maritime taskforce launched by the Biden administration in December in response to Houthi attacks against vessels operating in the Red Sea.
Kenya’s largest bank, KCB, announces first quarter pretax profit up 53 per cent
Net interest income rose to 31.06 billion shillings from 22.06 billion shillings. Gross loans increased 12.2 per cent to 1.13 trillion shillings, while loan-loss provisions stood at 6.3 billion shillings, up from 4.12 billion shillings.
International investigators now link tech giant Apple to massive theft of Congo minerals
Congo’s lawyers notified Apple CEO Tim Cook on April 22 of a series of concerns about its supply chain, and also wrote to Apple subsidiaries in France, demanding answers within three weeks. The Amsterdam & Partners LLP law firm has been investigating allegations that minerals mined in Congo by several companies and armed groups are being smuggled out through Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi.
White House outlines Ruto state visit: Regional security, debt relief and peacekeeping top agenda
It is no secret that democracy is on the backfoot in a lot of places globally. If you talk to democracy scholars, democracy is on something like its 20th year of global decline. So, Africa is not alone in this regard. The Biden administration is focused on lifting up and partnering with democracies to help them deliver.
How successive regimes in Kenya ruthlessly effected scorched earth policy to pauperise Luhyia and Luo, then profile them as lazy
Our children now sit their Form Four (secondary school) exams and thereafter head to Kibra and Kawangware to look for menial jobs. They are ridiculed as pagazi (slaves). We are so poor that when the NCPB (National Cereals and Produce Board) Kisumu edition of the scandal was exposed last month, all the players in the team were Kip-This, Kip-That and Kip-Steal! The granary is bang in the middle of our land, but the products kept in it, plus the keepers and the thieves, come from elsewhere. How about that! Our own sons and daughters qualify for pagazi roles, their skills level notwithstanding.
Chinese citizen journalist imprisoned for ‘provoking trouble’ by reporting on Covid in Wuhan freeds
Zhang was sentenced to four years in prison on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” a vaguely defined charge often used in political cases, and served her full term. Yet, on the day of her release, her former lawyers could not reach her or her family. Shanghai police had paid visits to activists and her former lawyers in the days leading up to her release.
More EU countries recognise independent Palestinian state as anchor of lasting ME peace
European countries have approached the issue differently. Some, like Sweden, recognised a Palestinian state a decade ago, while France is not planning to do so unless it can be an effective tool to make progress towards peace.
South Africa election: How Mandela’s once revered ANC lost its way with infighting, scandals
The ANC has often pointed to the difficulties in reversing nearly a half-century of racist laws under apartheid and hundreds of years of European colonialism before that, which kept millions in poverty. It maintains that South Africa is a better country than it was under apartheid and that is undoubtedly true.
Latest IOM report says 281 million people migrate annually and the long, dangerous journeys drive prosperity
UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed noted, the issue of regular pathways has become a controversial topic in some regions due to the political atmosphere surrounding migration and the proliferation of toxic misinformation campaigns.
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