DRC President Tshisekedi finally agrees to peace talks with M23 rebels from March 18 in Angola
Congo’s government has said at least 7,000 people have died in the fighting since January. At least 600,000 people have been displaced by the fighting since November, according to the UN humanitarian affairs office.
In Uganda a tiny fraction of women are ‘empowered’ with lavish lifestyles, vast majority exported into slavery
Although in his speech President Tibuhaburwa Museveni reiterated that empowering women has been a deliberate focus of his administration since the National Resistance Movement (NRM) came into power, in most cases the women empowered are those who profess to be NRMO at all levels of society.
Federal judge rules reduction in staff and funding is legal at African development agency
USADF last week tried to keep staff from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from entering their offices in Washington. DOGE staff managed to gain entry after returning with US Marshals.
Somali forces end a 24-hour siege by al-Shaabab militants on a hotel, leaving all fighters dead
Al-Shaabab, which opposes Somalia’s federal government, frequently carries out bombings and assaults targeting government officials and military personnel in the Horn of Africa nation.
Turning and turning in widening gyre: How President Museveni lost touch with reality in Uganda with sonorous ‘cyclic talking’
In Uganda NRM politics has been full of circular talking: arguments about the bush war in Luwero, ambushing Obote’s vehicle, killing Obote’s soldiers ostensible to liberate Uganda. This has gone on since 1986 – a period of nearly 40 years or four decades. At the centre of the circular talking is President Tibuhaburwa Museveni, himself an expert at circular arguments, all intended to raise himself over and above everyone else or every institution.
Angola proposes direct peace talks between Congo and M23, but Kinshasa says it’s not keen
M23 rebels have seized east Congo’s two biggest cities since January in an escalation of a long-running conflict rooted in the spill-over into Congo of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide and the struggle for control of Congo’s vast mineral resources.
Trial of Philippine ex-leader at ICC for crimes against humanity looms he’s flown to The Hague
Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested on Tuesday on a warrant from the International Criminal Court accusing him of crimes against humanity over deadly anti-drugs crackdowns he oversaw while in office, the Philippine government said.
Trump administration plans to do away with US Department of Education in next phase of downsizing
All US government agencies have been ordered to come up with large-scale layoff plans by Thursday, setting up the next phase of Trump’s cost-cutting campaign. Several agencies have offered employees payments to retire early to fulfil Trump’s demand.
Double trouble: Rwanda-backed rebels advance in eastern Congo complicates response to mpox outbreak
More than 600 mpox patients fled different hospitals in eastern Congo as the fighting escalated, the Africa CDC said. Many of the fleeing patients were in the Miti Murhesa health zone, one of the hardest hit in the mpox outbreak. At least 4,700 cases were reported there as of the end of 2024, according to the zone’s chief medical officer Dr Cikuru.
Special Climate Envoy of President of Kenya lobbies Russia to support Africa’s quest for climate justice
During the visit, Mohamed held talks with Ruslan Edelgeriyev, Aide to the President of the Russian Federation and Special Presidential Representative on Climate Issues, Alexander Novak, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and Mikhail Bogdanov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia and Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Middle East and Africa.
