President Zelensky celebrates return home of Ukrainian commanders captured by Russia
President Volodymyr Zelensky brought home from Turkey on Saturday five former commanders of Ukraine’s garrison in Mariupol, a highly symbolic achievement that Russia said violated a prisoner exchange deal engineered last year. Russia immediately denounced the release. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Ankara had promised under the exchange agreement to...
Counteroffensive: Ukraine says it has advanced near eastern Bakhmut city, plans to circle it
Ukrainian military analysts have said that securing Klishchiivka would help Ukraine take back Bakhmut, which was captured by Russian forces in May after months of fighting.
UN mission head says South Sudan not ready for elections despite President Salva Kiir’s assurance
President Salva Kiir and his rival turned Vice President Riek Machar were at loggerheads in recent days over the sacking of the defence and interior ministers. The peace agreement signed in 2018 stated that Kiir was to appoint the interior minister while Machar was to appoint the defence minister. But the president has unilaterally fired both ministers.
Russia, Ukraine trade blame over who’s behind imminent attack on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
President Zelensky and the Ukrainian military also provided no evidence for their assertions. None of the reactors at the plant is producing electricity. In his nightly video message, Zelensky said Russia was planning to “simulate an attack on the plant. Or they could have some other kind of scenario.
Covid vaccine news censorship: Judge bars Biden administration from working with social media
“The evidence in our case is shocking and offensive with senior federal officials deciding that they could dictate what Americans can and cannot say on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other platforms about Covid-19, elections, criticism of the government and more,” Landry said in a statement.
How poor Uganda transited from cheap slave labour to illicit hawking of body organs
The organ trade is already scaring many Ugandans, especially the poor, away from government and even private hospitals, fearing that their organs or those of their people, will be stolen from them to renew the health of the rich in Uganda and abroad. They have heard that some big people are involved in the bloody trade, and may be in league with some health personnel to steal their organs.
When he seized power in Uganda, Museveni dabbled in barter trade then commodified goods, services and relationships
Today Uganda is firmly in the armpit of the IFIs, although China has also extended its ecological footprint through loans and projects, and the country’s debt which was in billions of shillings by the time Idi Amin was toppled from power by combined Obote and Museveni forces, is now over 80 trillion shillings after 37 years of President Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s rule, accompanied by untold impoverishment of once prosperous indigenous communities.
Wagner Group: Ukraine war was started by Russian oligarchy to benefit themselves, gain power
The war was started by the Russian oligarchy to benefit themselves and gain power. In his rant, Prigozhin did not criticise Russian President Vladimir Putin by name, focusing instead on the broader Russian elite, and specifically on his personal enemy Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu.
Wagner in Africa: Its fighters can be deployed quickly, have sophisticated arms and are ruthless
Overall, Wagner has done nearly nothing to make life better for Africans: its activities have served to entrench dictators and undermine democracies; to extend and deepen civil conflicts; to murder innocent civilians; to exploit natural resources for Russia’s gain; and to vilify the only alternative that Africans have to China for investment.
Weak Russian President Putin blasts weekend insurrection organisers and Wagner ‘traitors’
Abbas Gallyamov, a former Kremlin speechwriter turned political analyst, called the address weak. In a Facebook post, he said it was a sign that Putin is “acutely dissatisfied with how he looked in this whole story and is trying to correct the situation.”
