Inside Russian military carnage: Ukrainian intercepts show Russian soldiers’ anger, 43,000 killed
Neil Melvin, director of International Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a defence and security think tank headquartered in London, said the calls appeared to confirm some Russian forces were thrown into defensive operations with little preparation and were sustaining high casualties, sowing tensions between soldiers and commanders.
US Senate races ahead of House on spending bills to avoid government shutdown from October
Republican Representative Tom Cole, who chairs a powerful committee that is the gatekeeper for all legislation, told a group of fellow Republicans in late July: “My guess is, knowing some of our defence guys really well, they aren’t going to fight that hard to hold down defence spending. They’re like ‘please put me in conference so I can surrender immediately.'”
Is Uganda’s Only-Bull-in-the-Kraal finally metamorphosing from ‘No-Changist’ to ‘Changist’?
Very early in his reign, the President Museveni made it clear that he had captured political power through the barrel of the gun to stay in power as long as he possibly could when he said, “a mere piece of paper cannot remove me from power”, adding, ” I am a quarter pin of a bicycle. I came in by knocking and can only leave by knocking”.
Justice Department reports unprecedented rise in threats to election workers 14 months to US poll
About 1 in 5 election workers know someone who left their election job for safety reasons and 73 per cent of local election officials said harassment has increased, according to a Brennan Centre survey published in April.
Sudan: A gun class of constantly shifting alliances of violence specialists and elites who prey on civilians
The fight began as a mobster shootout over which soldier-business cartel would run Sudan. But the two bosses are losing their grip. Hemedti appears to be physically incapacitated and has shown none of the populist energy that allowed him to set a political agenda. Trying to dispel rumours that he was dead or in intensive care, the RSF released a video of patched together clips, in which Hemedti stood, stiff and pallid, speaking for just 11 seconds.
Gabonese President Ali Bongo’s ouster underlines West Africa’s reputation as Africa’s ‘coup belt’
The coup is the eighth since 2020 in West and Central Africa, a region that in the last decade had made strides to shed its reputation as a “coup belt”, only for persistent insecurity and corruption to open the door to military leaders.
Gabonese military officers announce overthrow of President Bongo, ending half century of family rule
Bongo came to power when his father Omar died in 2009. In 2018, he suffered a stroke which sidelined him for almost a year and lead to calls for him to step aside.
Vatican denies Pope Francis glorified imperialism in unscripted speech to Russian youths
Francis had told Russian youths in the unscripted remarks on Friday to remember that they are the heirs of past tsars such as Peter I and Catherine II.
Russia says ‘presence of the president is not envisaged’ at Wagner boss Prigozhin’s funeral
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Kremlin did not have any specific information about the funeral plans, and the arrangements were up to relatives. The day after the crash, Putin sent his condolences to the families of those killed and said he had known Prigozhin for a very long time, since the chaotic years of the early 1990s.
Nicknamed The Crocodile, Zimbabwe’s President Mnangagwa retains seat in controversial poll
President Mnangagwa was re-elected for a second and final five-year term with 52.6 per cent of the vote, according to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission. Chamisa, 45, who also lost to Mnangagwa in a very close and disputed election five years ago, won 44 per cent of the vote this time, the commission said.
