Why with over 300 active wars and military coups making a bloody return in Africa, AU needed Raila Odinga
Most media had in fact reported that that Raila was the frontrunner, thanks in part to President William Ruto’s intense efforts. Even the state-owned France24 network said he had an easy path. Ironically, French President Emmanuelle Macron played a crucial role in blocking that path, mobilizing Francophone leaders to elect Youssouf, partly because France has a very large military base in Djibouti. The UAE and other outside forces were of course hard at work as usual. That is still Africa’s Fate, it seems.
Kenyan civil societies want independent probe by ICC of election atrocities in Tanzania
Scores went missing, prompting fears that they may have been killed by the political bodies dumped in mass graves as may be the case with hundreds – civil society allege thousands – with Tanzanians suspected to have been buried in unidentified graves.
How Trump bulldozed Netanyahu to apologise to Qatari emir that earned him Hamas trust, peace deal
An important development during the talks was the mediators’ success in convincing Hamas that its continued holding of hostages had become a liability for it rather than leverage, the senior US official and the Palestinian official in Gaza said. Hamas came to a view that continuing to hold hostages undermined global support for Palestinians, and that without them, Israel would have no credibility to restart fighting, the Palestinian official said.
