Ethiopia, Turkey ties stretched over Somalia maritime deals that threaten to shift dynamics
Turkey and its predecessor state, the Ottoman Empire, have had a long history of interactions in the Horn of Africa, going back to the 16th century. But formal diplomatic ties between Ethiopia’s Emperor Menelik II and the Ottoman Empire’s Sultan Abdul Hamid II were not initiated until 1896. At the time, the Ethiopians had just defeated the Italians at the Battle of Adwa.
30 years after genocide Rwanda discovers new mass graves, widening cracks in ethnic healing
In the months since, Rwandan authorities say the remains of at least 1,000 people have been found in this farming community in the district of Huye, a surprisingly high number after three decades of government efforts to give genocide victims dignified burials.
South Africa’s ruling ANC party and parliamentary speaker faces arrest over $135,000 bribe
According to prosecutors, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula received 11 payments totalling $135,000 between December 2016 and July 2019. She sought another bribe of $105,000 but that wasn’t paid, prosecutors said. Opposition lawmakers have called for her to step down from her position as speaker over the allegations.
The spill of Africa: Uganda’s academic knowledge workers cut image of leftovers who can’t qualify to be mind liberators
In Uganda, the single most threat to the belonging of species, including Man, Homo sapiens, is Man – particularly the political, entrepreneurial, corporate and nomadic-pastoral Man. Most of the blame goes to our education system, which continues to produce selfish and individualistic graduates, who in the total society manifest as the greedy, the selfish and the individualistic. When they should be building communities, society and country as “wholes” they build themselves, their families, kith and kin and ethnic groups.
Temporary relief for Trump after he posts $175m bond in civil fraud case to avert asset seizures
The bond prevents New York Attorney General Letitia James from going after Trump’s properties, including Trump Tower, his 370-acre resort and golf course in Westchester and his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Trump has denied wrongdoing and said the case is a political witch-hunt by James, a Democrat who sued him in 2022.
Chronicles of 1994 Rwanda Genocide trace its roots in Kagame, Museveni’s quest to put Great Lakes Region under Tutsi dominion aided by UK and US
It should be noted that only three days prior to the attack that then Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana had announced at the UN General Assembly in New York, key concessions to refugees. However, the RPF chose not to allow the validity of Habyarimana’s initiatives to be confirmed.
Tshisekedi appoints DR Congo’s first female prime minister as violence surges in the east
Former planning minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka will step into the role at a time of worsening violence in the country’s mineral-rich east, which borders Rwanda. The long-running conflict has displaced more than 7 million people according to the United Nations, making it one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
Wrong right: How Belgium and Catholic church cultivated Tutsi-Hutu ethnic hate that spilled to Congo and Uganda
The Belgian authorities had anticipated this kind of instability and had prepared for it. Governor Harroy had approached a friend of his, Colonel B.E.M Guy Logiest who at the time was an officer with Force Publique in the Congo to help him prepare. And so when the upheaval began, a detachment was sent from Bujumbura on October 24, 1959. Then on November 4, 1959, Colonel Logiest arrived accompanied by Force Publique soldiers as well as Belgian paratroopers.
Arrest, imprisonment of Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal for graft spark protests in India
The court’s decision comes a day after the INDIA bloc, an alliance of 27 opposition parties including AAP, came together at a rally in New Delhi to protest against Kejriwal’s arrest and accused Modi of seeking to rig the elections.
Why ‘Conscious Ugandans’ are wary of presidents Museveni and Kagame entrenching Tutsi feudalism in East Africa
Paradoxically in the initial period of colonisation, the Catholic church played midwife to Tutsi privileges. However, during the 1950s the church became solid supporter of the Hutus. The volte face of the church began in the late 1930s with the change in the character of the Belgian priests then coming into Rwanda. They were mainly from the region of Belgium called Wallonia.
