Why West is unable to rein in Rwanda’s with economic sanctions to force its army out of eastern Congo
The United States disbursed $180 million in foreign aid to Rwanda in 2023. The World Bank’s International Development Association provided nearly $221 million the same year. And in the years ahead, the European Union has pledged to invest over $900 million in Rwanda under the Global Gateway strategy, its response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
Destination Kinshasa: Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Congo threaten to storm DRC capital, take power
“We want to go to Kinshasa, take power and lead the country,” Corneille Nangaa, one of the political leaders of M23, said during the briefing. He did not indicate how the rebels planned to advance on the capital, more than 1,500 kilometres (nearly 1,000 miles) away.
Former South African President Zuma’s daughter arrested on terrorism charges, freed on warning
The riots, which were sparked by Jacob Zuma being sent to prison for contempt of court for refusing to testify at an inquiry into widespread government corruption during the time he was president from 2009-2018, were some of the worst civil unrest South Africa has seen since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule in 1994.
Pentagon probes training flight flown by ‘fairly experienced’ Black Hawk crew, halts flights
During an appearance later with Trump at the White House, Hegseth told reporters that there appears to have been an elevation issue with the Black Hawk and said Army investigators were on the ground looking into the matter.
Rising access to electricity in Kenya, worries conservationists as 500 colobus monkeys, 5,000 birds are electrocuted by power transmission lines
Colobus Conservation in collaboration with KPLC in 2017 removed 12 kilometres of uninsulated powerlines in Diani at the Kenya coast and replaced them with insulated lines. The agencies also moved transformers, which given their location, were causing multiple primate electrocutions.
Why the revolutionary germ in Kenya’s Gen-Z tax protests is growing but political tribe has buried head in sand
You either die or accept to acquiesce in suffering to your grave. Gen-Zs elected the former and many of them were felled by what they perceived as the butchers gunshots. The stress were full of blood. The spirit, though, was not felled, just as was the case in the germinal revolutions in the far-away lands.
How Sierra Leon teenage defender outfoxed Valladolid to sign for Manchester City in six days
Bah was enthused by the idea of joining City – the group, which includes 13 teams worldwide from the United States to Japan, Brazil and Australia – and will receive good money for doing so.
Pushing boundaries: How poor Sierra Leonean teenage footballer defied odds, paid $6m to force transfer to Man City in seven days
Juma Bah joined Valladolid in August from AIK Freetong on a 12-month loan, with an option to buy for €150,000 ($156,282). His salary at the time was around €2,000 ($2,083) a month, in line with others in their youth setup. If players progress at the club, their salary and release clauses increase.
UN agencies warn ‘imminent’ outbreak of cholera, mpox, measles and malaria in eastern Congo’s North Kivu will kill thousands
Before M23 fighters closed in on Goma, more than 700,000 internally displaced people lived around the provincial capital. But hundreds of thousands fled in anticipation of clashes between the Rwanda-backed rebels and DRC troops, prompting renewed alarm about the further spread of deadly disease.
M23 capture of Goma city in eastern Congo reveals hodgepodge of foreign mercenaries in mineral-rich province
At a border crossing between Goma and its Rwandan twin city of Gisenyi, journalists saw dozens of Romanian mercenaries, who had been hired by Congo to bolster its defences, crossing the border into Rwanda – the start of their journey back home, one said.
