Fighting flares up in troubled eastern DR Congo hours after EAC called for pullback by armed groups
Fighting flared on Monday between the DR Congo’s army and M23 rebels in the country’s troubled east, just days after African leaders called for a ceasefire and a pullback by armed groups. “There have been clashes since 5:00 am with the M23” in the Kitshanga area, northwest of the main...
Wary minorities say ‘Ethiopia is a federation of ethnicities and everyone deserves to feel safe’
When war broke out in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region in November 2020, residents of the town of Adebay, close to the Eritrean border, woke to the sounds of gunfire and revving engines. Eritrean soldiers were beating up civilians and forcing them onto military trucks, two witnesses say. They estimated that...
Relegated to irrelevance by UN and the West, Western Sahara people are forced into servitude by international apathy
Fresh fruit and vegetables, sold commercially in the camps’ markets, are largely unaffordable for most Western Sahara refugees. Cheaper, processed food is available, but that has contributed to a “double burden of malnutrition”, which includes obesity among women and under-nutrition in children. Thirty-one-year-old Fatimalo Mustapha Sayed manages a community vegetable...
America’s uniformed gangsters: Why debates about police funding are a hot-button electoral issue in US
The Memphis Police Department unit that beat 29-year-old Tyre Nichols during a January 7 traffic stop was part of a division that operated with an annual budget of more than $28 million a year from the time of its creation in 2021 until it was disbanded over the weekend. The...
Senior Somali and AU leaders claim national army has ousted al Shabaab rebels from strongholds
A senior Somali minister and the head of ATMIS (African Union Transition Mission in Somalia) are insistent both will continue collaborating in joint military operations in the ongoing battle against al-Shabaab in the East African country. The top ATMIS man Mohamed El-Amine Souef and Daud Aweis, Somali Minister of Information,...
Military coup looms in Russia, there are also fears unpopular Putin plans to defer presidential elections and impose martial law
A military coup is becoming a possibility in Russia as the war in Ukraine continues, President Vladimir Putin’s former speechwriter has revealed. Speaking to CNN’s Erin Burnett, speechwriter turned political analyst Abbas Gallyamov said that as Russian losses mount in Ukraine and the country experiences hardship brought about by Western...
Why Super Powers are frantically wooing Africa as relations among themselves deteriorate
To call it a new ‘scramble for Africa’, as some like to do, is clearly hyperbolic. Nonetheless, it can’t be denied that the Big Powers are energetically wooing Africa as relations among themselves deteriorate. China’s new Foreign Minister Qin Gang got off to an early start, visiting Ethiopia, Gabon, Angola,...
Why do US presidents traffic classified documents out of White House upon leaving office?
Joe Biden and Donald Trump are both facing special counsel investigations into their retention of classified documents after leaving office. The materials discovered in locations controlled by Biden reportedly relate to his time as vice president under Barack Obama and Trump’s are from his tenure as president. Democrats have sought...
Questions raised about why Africa’s last colony – Western Sahara – is deprived of UN human rights monitoring
Western Sahara is the territory in northwest Africa bordered by Morocco in the north, Algeria and Mauritania in the east and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. A former Spanish colony, it’s listed by the United Nations as one of only 17 territories that remain without self-government. Since becoming independent...
UN peacekeepers eastern DR Congo stumble on mass graves containing 42 bodies in Ituri province
A MONUSCO patrol in the wake of attacks by militia group CODECO in Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC’s) Ituri province found mass graves containing 42 bodies. Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for United Nations (UN) secretary general Antonio Guterres, said there were 12 women and six children in the 42 body...
