South African crime busters and a sangoma or witchdoctor arrested for stealing police ammunitions
South Africa’s Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI) national head Lt-Gen Godfrey Lebeya has expressed disappointment at the involvement of officers from the directorate in criminal activities. This comes after two officers from the DPCI, known more by its code name, Hawks, Lt-Col and a captain working at supply chain...
Half of Somalia’s population is in grip of severe food need against backdrop of drought and insurgency
Somalia’s special envoy for humanitarian issues has said more than six million people in the east African nation are affected by a devastating drought the country experiencing at present. Addressing a news conference in Mogadishu on Monday, Abdurahman Abdishakur Warsameh said the number of people suffering is fast approaching half...
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...
