Interpol links increased activity of ISIS in Kenya, Tanzania and DRC to political instability and socioeconomic challenges
Thirty-seven suspected terrorists, including suspected members of Islamic State, have been arrested across East Africa over the past two months, the global police body Interpol said on Monday. Interpol, which is headquartered in France, said the arrests had been made during November and December during operations conducted jointly with the...
DRC military surrender, Goma residents flee after Rwanda-backed rebels roll into eastern Congo’s largest city
As the M23 rebels entered Goma, a fire at the city’s Munzenze Prison on Monday morning resulted in the escape of thousands of inmates. “All the prisoners who were detained came out, whether women, men or minors, everyone came out,” said Mwamisyo Ndungo, one of the escapees who estimated that more than 2,000 fled the facility.
Conflicted CIA director nominee: Why Democrats and world are worried about John Ratcliffe’s role in 2020 US election mess
As is customary for government officials, Ratcliffe has vowed to avoid “any actual or apparent conflict of interest” by selling stocks and recusing himself from any matter in which he had a personal stake. For Hauser, however, that does not erase the risk that his ties to the industry will affect his judgment on a technology that many critics say has yet to prove its usefulness.
How English Premier League’s financial rules are working to check influx of dirty money, enforce fair-play
There is, inevitably, to a concentration of talent in the Premier League. At a very generous estimate, there are perhaps a dozen clubs left on the continent with the financial clout to pay a competitive fee (and salary) to sign a player from England’s top flight. The days when English clubs regarded their European counterparts as predators are long gone. Now, they see them almost exclusively as prey.
Hours after M23 and allies announce Goma capture, UN Security Council demands rebels halt offensive in eastern Congo
The UN Security Council urged Rwanda and the DRC to return to talks to achieve peace and address issues related to the presence of Rwanda Defence Forces in the eastern Congo and Congolese support for the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).
Alliance announces fall of Goma city to rebels in eastern Congo as regional war looms
Well-trained and professionally armed, M23 – the latest in a long line of Tutsi-led rebel movements – says it exists to protect Congo’s ethnic Tutsi population.
Jordan and Egypt supported by Arab world reject Trump’s call to grant asylum to Palestinians from Gaza
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who has repeatedly called for the return of Jewish settlers to Gaza, welcomed Trump’s call as “an excellent idea” and said he would work to develop a plan to implement it. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly rejected such notions, advocated by Smotrich.
M23 rebels order UN peacekeepers and national army in eastern Congo to surrender, say they will seize Goma city overnight
The rapidly deepening conflict is aggravating one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises and has raised fears the fighting could spill over into a broader regional war.
How ‘believing’ spurred Africa’s richest footballer and Cameroon’s FA President Eto’o to success in sports and business
Forbes ranks Eto’o the richest African footballer in the world and ranks 12th globally, according to Forbes and Wealthy Gorilla
