Washington’s silence on ‘foreign elections’ is what Museveni needs to retain power in Uganda
Violent youth-led protests in neighbouring Kenya and Tanzania over the past two years have underscored the risks to the government of young people’s frustration with political systems they see as corrupt and unresponsive to their needs.
US dethronement of Maduro raises unease about international legal framework as Trump warns Colombia, covets Greenland
US President Donald Trump insists capturing Maduro was legal. His administration has declared the drug cartels operating from Venezuela to be unlawful combatants and said the US is now in an “armed conflict” with them, according to an administration memo obtained in October.
Error of judgment? US President Trump’s scramble for Venezuelan oil coincides with transition shrinking appetite for fossil fuel
Experts caution that a number of realities – including international oil prices and longer-term questions of stability in the country – are likely to make this oil revolution much harder to execute than Trump seems to think.
Trump to be ‘president’ of Venezuela aided by his defence and foreign ministry as US ‘fixes’ Latin America oil industry
At the same time, María Corina Machado, considered the main leader of the opposition to Maduro and Hugo Chávez and recent winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, issued a statement in which she said that opposition party figure Edmundo González Urrutia must immediately assume the presidency of the country.
Maduro capture: Sources reveal CIA had an asset close to Venezuela president who monitored his movements and pinpointed his exact location
The CIA had a small team on the ground starting in August who were able to provide insight into Maduro’s pattern of life that made grabbing him seamless, according to one source familiar with the matter.
Trump announces America will run Venezuela ‘until such time that we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition’
Officials told CBS News and the BBC that Trump ordered airstrikes on various sites in Venezuela. Among the locations struck were the main military base, Fuerte Tiuna, and the main airbase, La Carlota, as well as El Volcán, a signal antenna site, and La Guaira Port, a seaport on the coast of the Caribbean, David Smolansky, a spokesman for Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, told CBS News.
Trump gloats over capture of Venezuela’s Maduro, expected to be tried in US for drug trafficking
President Maduro was captured by a team that included elite US Special Forces, including the US Army’s Delta Force, a US official said. Republican US Senator Mike Lee said Secretary of State Marco Rubio had told him Maduro would stand trial on criminal charges in the US and that no further action was anticipated inside Venezuela.
Kenya’s President Ruto tried to de-dollarise African economies and crashed out, now green buck is bracing for end to its dominance
Ballooning US fiscal deficits – projected at $1.9 trillion in 2025 – together with a widening current-account gap, estimated at 6 per cent of GDP, are adding pressure to the dollar. On top of this is the overuse of the “printing press,” meaning the creation of large amounts of new money to finance spending.
Media condemn unconfirmed plans to replicate Denmark’s childhood vaccine schedule in US
President Donald Trump on December 5 signed a presidential memorandum to launch the process of aligning US childhood vaccine recommendations with best practices from peer countries.
