‘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.
Seven months after public protests over taxes and appetite for borrowing, Kenya’s extravagant regime is in talks with IMF for new loans
The decision by the administration of US President Donald Trump to freeze foreign aid could hit Kenya hard as it lacks the fiscal space to replace the funding, Mbadi said, adding that he hoped the United States would reconsider.
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.
World’s authoritarian regimes revel in Trump’s foreign aid freeze, term affected Washington allies ‘disposable tissue’
In Venezuela, Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, the main enforcer of the ruling socialist party’s security apparatus, boasted last week on state TV that the aid channelled by USAID to the opposition was a “black box of corruption” that he vowed to investigate. Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on X that he hopes the “notorious Deep State doesn’t swallow” Musk for pulling the plug on the agency.
Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces hit open market in Omdurman, kill 54 people and scores suffer injuries
Sudan’s Doctors Syndicate said one mortar shell hit metres (yards) away from al-Naw Hospital, which received most of the market casualties. Chris Lockyear, secretary general of the Doctors Without Borders aid group, was at the hospital when casualties started arriving.
Insurgency in eastern Congo echoes dangers of constitutionally manufacturing ‘indigenous’ Banyarwanda tribe in Uganda in wider Museveni-Kagame plot to create Chwezi superstrate
Whether they are in Uganda, Rwanda, DRC or Burundi, they take themselves as one and the same with the same interest: survival as a small group in a sea of indigenous Bantu and Nilotic groups. To survive in modern times they must capture every civic space, conquer the natives, exclude them from resources, divide them, make laws that create fear in them and prevent them from organising themselves politically and effectively. They control the electoral process in their favour, subordinate the civil to the military and rule them with an iron hand.
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels want to capture Bukavu in eastern Congo as UN reports group killed 700 civilians, injured 2,800 in Goma
The M23 group is the most potent of more than 200 armed groups vying for control in Congo’s mineral-rich east, which holds vast deposits critical to much of the world’s technology. They are backed by around 4,000 troops from neighbouring Rwanda, according to UN experts, far more than in 2012 when they first captured Goma for days in a conflict driven by ethnic grievances.
South African opposition accuse President Ramaphosa of poor leadership after M23 rebels kill 13 soldiers
Brett Herron, Secretary General of the GOOD Party, on Tuesday echoed the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in vigorously condemning the offensive on the North Kivu regional capital of Goma by the M23 rebels and the support given to them by the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF).
African Union kicks off public participation campaign in Agenda 2063 with journalists workshop in Kericho
Agenda 2063 workshop participants explored Agenda 2063’s seven aspirations that revolve around prosperity, governance, peace and unity in Africa. The session also focused on capacity-building strategies for media professionals, ensuring they are equipped to communicate the agenda’s goals effectively.
