Kenyan media women envisage digitally resilient community of African women who champion safe feminist internet
Common forms of technology facilitated-GBV attacks include; trolling, doxing, body shaming, abusive comments, revenge porn, hacking, impersonation, sextortion, deepfake, digital domestic abuse and online recruitment for exploitation that are motivated by the sexual or gender identity of the target or by underlying gender norms.
Attempts to assure Goma residents of peace and security by Rwanda-backed rebels received with scepticism
The UN and aid groups have expressed concern about the safety of the displaced people in Goma. Before it was captured by the rebels, the city was a critical humanitarian hub that hosted many of the more than 6 million people displaced by conflict in the region.
US foreign aid freeze cripples world hunger efforts as President Trump slashes, reshapes American public spending
US-provided cash assistance intended to help people buy food and other necessities in Sudan and Gaza also has been halted, aid workers. So has funding for volunteer-run community kitchens, an American-supported effort in Sudan to help feed people in areas inaccessible to traditional aid, these people said.
Central bank boss says Kenyan currency’s holding steady in wake of US foreign aid freeze
Kenya’s shilling currency is broadly unchanged year-to-date against the dollar.
It closed 2024 up about 21 per cent after a bond buyback eased concerns that the government could default.
Masking rifts: How government workers’ fear of Elon Musk’s source of discord in Trump’s inner circle
In the space of a couple of weeks, Elon Musk and his associates have taken control of multiple government agencies, and a cadre of young and inexperienced engineers with ties to Musk have been given access to some of the most highly sensitive federal systems through DOGE.
Why Africa maybe mystical Garden of Eden ceaselessly defiled by its rulers, urged on by colonisers
Africa boasted of a more developed and sophisticated system of governance in which kings wielded authority as confirmed in the Holy Scriptures – the Bible and the Q’uran – as captured by people inspired by God.
Behind every problem in Uganda there’s Museveni, which is how education system was designed to reject children in lower school
If the leadership in place lacks knowledge, wisdom, understanding and insight but continually pretends to have them and gives the impression that no other alternative system can address those problems, then it cannot extricate itself from the problems. You cannot be part of the problems and then cast yourself as the one with the solutions. It is deception.
‘Immense mess’: Italy defies ICC warrants of arrest for Libyan warlord wanted for war crimes
Al-Masri was arrested in Turin on the ICC warrant on January 19 at 9:30am, the day after he arrived in the country from Germany to watch a soccer match. The Italian government has said Rome’s court of appeals ordered him released January 21 because of a technical problem in the way that the ICC warrant was transmitted, having initially bypassed the Italian justice ministry.
Rwandan-backed M23 rebels capture Nyabibwe city, 100km away from Bukavu in eastern Congo
Neighbouring Uganda also has deployed soldiers inside Congo, with hundreds in Ituri province in the northeast since 2021 to fight the Allied Democratic Forces, another armed group, with the authorisation of Congo’s president. Col Deo Akiiki, deputy spokesman for the Ugandan military, says there had been no new deployments of soldiers to Congo in recent weeks.
UN Multinational Security Support mission faces crunch as US freezes funding for fighting Haiti’s gangs
The Trump administration has not yet said whether it supports making the MSS a UN mission, and China and Russia have opposed doing so.