While M23 rebels say they took up arms to defend their Tutsi kinsmen in eastern Congo, doubts are emerging about their grievances
The M23 is mostly led by Congolese Tutsi rebels who initially justified their insurgency by claiming that DRC failed to implement a prior peace deal with the group, and by arguing that Tutsi communities were being discriminated against.
Uganda’s gun-mediated security: How Museveni’s militarised police feeds state terrorism in Great Lakes Region
In Uganda, it is more common to find military commanders commanding the police at different levels of the institution. When the commander-in-chief sources personnel for regional military policing, he is free to get them from the military and the police because the difference between military and police is blurred. It is also common to see ordinary policemen who are military men and women in police uniform.
At least 67,000 white South Africans express interest in refugee status in US under Trump’s plan
The South African government has said that Trump’s allegations that it is targeting Afrikaners through a land expropriation law are inaccurate and largely driven by misinformation. Trump has posted on his Truth Social platform that Afrikaners were having their farmland seized, when no land has been taken under the new law.
Unyielding Rwanda-backed M23 rebels capture another mineral-rich town in Congo despite ceasefire calls
Taking Walikale gives the rebels control of a road linking four provinces in eastern Congo – North Kivu, South Kivu, Tshopo and Manyema – and effectively cutting off Congolese army positions.
Trump deports Venezuelan soccer player without criminal record ‘under investigation for suspicious tattoos’
According to his attorney, Reyes Barrios marched in two demonstrations, one in February and one in March 2024, and was abducted off the street and taken to government security forces to an undisclosed location, where he was tortured, facing electrocution and suffocation.
Mau Mau veterans say Public Benefits Organisation Act is key to compensation of victims of colonial abuses
A Public Benefit Organisation is a charitable membership or non-membership grouping of individuals or organisations, which is autonomous, non-partisan, non-profit making and engages in public benefit activities.
Education retention: Kenya’s school meals project gets backing of Africa Development Bank, Lesotho King
Speaking in Nairobi after a benchmarking tour in Ruiru in Kiambu County, the King Letsie III and his entourage accompanied by Adesina and the ministry of education officials were marvelled by the gains accruing from the school feeding programme in the country.
Case of revolutions eating their children: How Museveni transitioned from a messianic figure to an ogre that devours Ugandans
It is almost 40 years now and President Tibuhaburwa Museveni shows no sign of letting go of the power that he believes is only his. We have seen some of the things that he said took him to the bush come back: killings, kidnappings, vote theft, beating and maiming of Ugandans, et cetera despite the fact that his army is far more disciplined, with more educated soldiers.
Medical masquerade: New book claims Covid was a ‘hoax and racket’ right from the start
Within a year, Brownstone Institute had been founded and finally I was in contact with people such as Dr Clayton Baker, who knew that the real story went far beyond a bonkers public health response. The military was involved along with the intelligence services, not just on a national level but on a global one. This was not a mistake but rather a genuine coup d’etat against civilian government in favor of a cabal that operated mostly in secret.
African Union peacekeepers in Somalia accused of widespread abuse blamed on blanket immunity
AU forces are credited with keeping successive Somali governments in power. In gruelling house-to-house urban warfare in 2011, AMISOM managed to push al-Shabaab out of the capital, Mogadishu, and took significant losses in the process.
