Rwanda and DRC trade accusations over cross-border rebel activities as AU boss calls for ‘calm and dialogue’
African Union chair Macky Sall has called for “calm and dialogue” between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda after both sides accused the other of supporting rebel groups operating along their shared border. “I am gravely concerned by the rising tension between Rwanda and the DRC,” Macky Sall...
How Russian-shaped international order in Africa is likely to have destabilising impact on the continent
In April, Cameroon renewed a military cooperation agreement with Russia as Moscow intensified its offensive in Ukraine. The timing certainly supports Russia’s claim that its international isolation is relative. It also raises questions about Cameroon’s foreign policy at a time when African countries’ votes in the United Nations (UN) General...
Encouraged by election of President Mohamud, Biden administration plans to redeploy troops in Somalia
The US has announced new plans to for a “persistent presence” in Somalia of up to “around 450” US soldiers, just over two years after former President Donald Trump ordered a withdrawal of 700 military personnel from the war-ravaged nation. The decision by President Joe Biden will reverse an earlier...
Standard gauge railways: How theft of Kenya Railways prime land began, then fuelled by senior government officials
An attempt by two influential cabinet ministers in former President Mwai Kibaki and their sisters to acquire and sell houses belonging to the Kenya Railways Corporation in Nairobi’s Kileleshwa upmarket neighbourhood highlights the manner in which the struggling state corporation was bled dry by ruthless government functionaries and the relatives....
Debt trap: How Kenya’s president slept on the job as China plotted to own SGR through deliberate flaw in contract
Kenyan railway engineer Lawson Kamau Mbugguss has launched a stinging criticism of the Kenyan government for openly and negligently signing infrastructure development contracts without paying attention to the finer details with the potential to cost the country an arm and a leg. Dr Kamau Mbugguss’s exposé comes on the back...
Transfer: Liverpool talisman Sadio Mane keeps club in suspense as German giants Bayern Munich circle him
Liverpool frontman Sadio Mane is playing his cards close to the chest, declining to confirm or rule out imminent exit from the club, only promising to make his position clear after the Champions League final on Saturday. However, the decision not to commit to anything has set tongues wagging with...
Racism detected as old images of African monkeypox patients are used to illustrate virus spread among Whites
In a part of Nigeria that has dealt with monkeypox outbreaks for years, one doctor saw the photos circulating in Western media this week and chuckled. “Those are the very severe cases,” said Oyewale Tomori, a virologist in the nation’s southwest. “Like, ‘Ahh! This is monkeypox!’” The virus – discovered...
US threatens to sanction Sudan military rulers blocking rapid transition to democracy, end to violence
The United States wants to see rapid progress from military to civilian rule in Sudan and has threatened sanctions on anyone impeding or blocking the transition to democracy. Richard Mills, deputy US ambassador at the United Nations, said on Tuesday that Washington supports a joint effort by the UN political...
Britain and Spain want NATO to deal firmly with Russian expansion and rising military clout in Africa
Russia’s expanding influence and activity in Africa pose a “worrying” threat to the security of NATO countries along with its invasion of Ukraine and must be addressed by the military alliance, the Spanish and British defence ministers have said. At a joint news conference in Madrid, Spain’s Margarita Robles said...
Trump’s anarchic White House: Former president said something to the effect ‘maybe VP Pence should be hanged’
Shortly after hundreds of rioters at the Capitol started chanting “Hang Mike Pence!” on January 6, 2021, the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, left the dining room off the Oval Office, walked into his own office and told colleagues that President Donald J. Trump was complaining that the...
