https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/03/31/mozambique-palma-attack-insurgency/ An ongoing, week-long assault by Islamist militants on a northern Mozambique town that has left dozens dead and tens of thousands fleeing marks a significant escalation of the conflict that will precipitate a “humanitarian catastrophe,” analysts and aid organizations said. A largely homegrown militancy that borrows iconography from the Islamic State and professes allegiance to the global terrorist network… Read more »
https://www.reuters.com/world/former-ivory-coast-pm-soro-goes-trial-coup-plotting-charges-2021-05-19/ The trial of former Ivorian prime minister and rebel leader, Guillame Soro, started earlier this week, with the man himself held in absentia. The charges levelled against Soro accuse him, and 19 other accomplices, of plotting a coup against the current president, Alassane Ouattara. The defense of Soro vociferously denied the validity of the charges, calling it a shameless… Read more »
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/four-ethiopian-soldiers-convicted-crimes-against-civilians-tigray-2021-05-21/ In the first series of what is surely many more to come, four Ethiopian soldiers have been convicted of crimes committed against civilians in the Tigray, three of rape and one of murder. Waiting on trial behind them are twenty-eight more soldiers charged of murder and twenty-five charged of rape. After months of accusations of Ethiopian atrocities in Tigray,… Read more »
https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00078038.html Zimbabwe reports its first strand of the Indian variant of the covid-19 Viruses. How they think it entered the country is though a college student that was attending college in india and then came home. All travelers from the Asian countries that are coming back to Zimbabwe have to go through mandatory quaritinging in order to get back into… Read more »
https://allafrica.com/stories/202105180771.html In Malawi the police have been dealing with people trying to illegally get into their country by border crossing. so far in the past couple of days 13 people have been caught from passing into the country through the same part of the border, the Songwe border in the lakeshore district of Karonga. 3 of them were bangladesh nationalists… Read more »
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021 Last week, after the sudden death of Tanzanian president John Magufuli, the nation swore in Samia Suluhu Hassan, its first female president. The moment is significant for Tanzania, and not just because Hassan is a woman. Hassan is from Zanzibar — the semi-autonomous archipelago that united with mainland Tanganyika to form the United Republic of Tanzania, making her only the second Zanzibari… Read more »
Ghana became the first country to receive a shipment of coronavirus vaccine from a global effort to equitably distribute doses after a plane landed Wednesday with 600,000 AstraZeneca shots. The rollout is a first step toward getting doses to low- and middle-income countries cut out of the global vaccine race. But the timing and the relatively modest supply — enough for… Read more »
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/biden-recommits-to-his-refugee-goal-now-he-must-deliver-on-that-promise/2021/05/05/88521878-ad18-11eb-ab4c-986555a1c511_story.html On Monday, Joe Biden announced he would quadruple the historically low ceiling imposed by his predecessor on refugee resettlements for the current fiscal year. But in the same breath, Mr. Biden said he wouldn’t reach his own limit of 62,500 admissions, which, excluding the draconian annual caps of the Trump era, is itself the lowest such number since the modern refugee program’s inception… Read more »
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/16/after-violent-election-ugandas-government-faces-three-big-challenges/ President Yoweri Museveni’s recent criticism of ‘Western elements’ could complicate his reliance on foreign donors. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni won a sixth term with 58.6 percent of the vote last month, in an election marred by unprecedented violence and repression. Measures supposedly aimed at enforcing covid-19 regulations de facto criminalized political competition, preventing or banning the opposition from electoral campaigns. Security forces targeted opposition candidate Robert… Read more »
In April, there was a mass jailbreak in the southeastern Nigerian city of Owerri where up to 1,800 prisoners escaped, after armed gangs committed various killings against the police in the region. Since then, the region has been enveloped in rampant gang violence against authorities, along with other major offenses such as robbery, kidnapping, and banditry. This week, Nigerian police… Read more »
