Pentagon probes training flight flown by ‘fairly experienced’ Black Hawk crew, halts flights
During an appearance later with Trump at the White House, Hegseth told reporters that there appears to have been an elevation issue with the Black Hawk and said Army investigators were on the ground looking into the matter.
Why the revolutionary germ in Kenya’s Gen-Z tax protests is growing but political tribe has buried head in sand
You either die or accept to acquiesce in suffering to your grave. Gen-Zs elected the former and many of them were felled by what they perceived as the butchers gunshots. The stress were full of blood. The spirit, though, was not felled, just as was the case in the germinal revolutions in the far-away lands.
M23 capture of Goma city in eastern Congo reveals hodgepodge of foreign mercenaries in mineral-rich province
At a border crossing between Goma and its Rwandan twin city of Gisenyi, journalists saw dozens of Romanian mercenaries, who had been hired by Congo to bolster its defences, crossing the border into Rwanda – the start of their journey back home, one said.
Trump’s orders on aid freeze meet with legal resistance, force White House to revoke spending pause
At the virtual hearing from Providence, Rhode Island, McConnell, an appointee of Democratic President Barack Obama, said the states have convinced him that the “inappropriate effects” of the now-rescinded funding freeze directive “are going to continue and that hasn’t changed based on comments by the president’s press secretary.”
ECOWAS leaves to ‘keep door open’ as three coup-hit West African state to return to bloc
The split “worsens a legitimacy crisis of ECOWAS which has often failed people’s expectations in upholding the rule of law,” said Ulf Laessing, head of the Sahel programme at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
Plane crash in South Sudan kills 20 oil workers
Several air crashes have occurred in war-torn South Sudan in recent years. In September 2018, at least 19 people died when a small aircraft carrying passengers from Juba to the city of Yirol crashed.
Out of sight, out of mind: Refugee agencies scramble after Trump orders a stop on federally funded work
The federal refugee program – a form of legal migration to the US – has been in place for decades and assists those who have escaped war, natural disaster or persecution. Despite longstanding support for accepting refugees, the program has become politicized in recent years.
Emboldened Rwanda-backed M23 rebels set eyes on expansion of control after overrunning eastern Congo’s capital
Soldiers fighting for Congo – many of them mercenaries from other nations – were laying down their weapons at the border with Rwanda. Congo’s army seemed to be in disarray and those at the border appeared disorganised and ill-equipped for fighting.
Kenya’s health minister warns Africa must prepare for aftershocks of US’ exit from WHO, funding pause
Health Cabinet Secretary Deborah Barasa pointed out that achieving this goal requires strengthening components of health security and ensuring the implementation of Universal Health Coverage that guarantees affordable, accessible, and quality care for all.
Judiciary on trial as Supreme Court of Kenya and lawyers’ body tough it out over planned chamber protests
Judiciary spokesman Paul Ndemo says it is imperative that lawyers seek a lawful and peaceful means to address the matters at hand.
