The secessionist crisis in Cameroon’s western region is deepening, with the government promising to crack down hard after anglophone militants shot dead four soldiers and two policemen last week. The soldiers were killed in an ambush on a military convoy outside the town of Mamfe on 29 November in Cameroon’s anglophone South West Region. The policemen were killed the following… Read more »
The United States has pledged up to $60 million to support counterterrorism efforts by nations in Africa’s Sahel region. The funding, announced Monday by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, will support the Group of Five Sahel Joint Task Force, a military unit set up by Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger earlier this year. “Defeating terrorism depends on making… Read more »
Presidential aspirant and leader of the Agenda of People’s Alliance (APA) Nkosana Moyo says, his party willing, he would be happy to be part of Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government. The former Industry and International trade minister is on record saying Mnangagwa is a better leader than former President Robert Mugabe. Moyo resigned from government in 2001 sighting corruption and abuse of… Read more »
Rwanda could host up to 30,000 African immigrants currently stuck in Libya where they are exposed to all forms of abuse, including being sold openly in slave markets in the Northern Africa country. Speaking to The New Times, Foreign Affairs minister Louise Mushikiwabo said Rwanda is currently in talks with the African Union Commission to determine the entire extent of… Read more »
Implementation of the three-pronged approach to restore peace in South Sudan before the 2018 scheduled elections has been pushed to early next year. However, informal consultations continue. One of the things to be implemented is the revitalisation programme of the August 2015 agreement by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad), which finalised consultations with stakeholders from Addis Ababa, Pretoria, Khartoum,… Read more »
What can Kenya expect from Kenyatta’s second term? 29 Nov 2017 People gesture during a commemoration of the lives of opposition supporters killed during confrontations with the security forces over the election period in Nairobi [Baz Ratner/Reuters] MORE ON KENYA Kenyatta sworn in, vows to unite Kenya after divisive pollyesterday What can Kenya expect from Kenyatta’s second term?yesterday Kenyatta sworn in… Read more »