https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/chadian-security-forces-clash-with-protesters-denouncing-military-takeover-2021-05-19/ Last April saw the sudden battlefield death of Chadian president, Idriss Deby, during a skirmish with insurgent rebels in the country’s northern region. Soon after, Deby’s son, Mahamat, emerged to temporarily dissolve parliament and establish military rule, until a new democratic election in 18 months. This has caused even more chaos to unfold in the region, as outroar against… Read more »
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-19/mozambique-s-response-to-insurgency-perplexes-neighbors Despite repeated efforts from the Southern African Development Community (SADC), led by South Africa, the government of Mozambique continues to persist in its reticence to accept any offers of outside military aid for the ongoing insurgency crisis in the country’s northern region, Caba Delgado. Indeed, Mozambique has remained hesitant to conduct any form of action in the region, and… Read more »
https://allafrica.com/stories/202105180369.html As the NBC stikes countries it is hindering the spreading of awareness about covid-19 and where to receive the vaccine if the public wants to receive it. The turn out from the public is very low and many people say that it is because the radio strike. towards the inland people simply do not have access to newspaper, internet… Read more »
https://allafrica.com/stories/202105170157.html In retaliation to not getting what he wants the president of Zimbabwe has stated that he thinks the judicial high court has been taken over by foreign forces. what caused the president to do this is when the high court denied his action in trying to restate a retiring chief justice. the judges ruled that the country’s top judge… Read more »
By night, the boarding school teacher becomes a security guard. He wears a whistle around his neck in case gunmen jump the low-slung fence and break into dormitories where 300 boys sleep. They know to run if they hear the shrill warning — straight to town, toward the police station. Knock on doors until someone hides you. In a normal… Read more »
https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00077958.html Zimbabwe’s high court found that the president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, illegally extended the the country’s top judge. they found this out after the fact that the President extended the chief justice’s term to another 5 years right before he was due to retire. people saw this as a move by the president to consolidate his power. the judge has been… Read more »
https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00077800.html President Félix Tshisekedi of the DR Congo has declared a state of siege in two different provinces. The Provinces that are under siege are North Kivu (some 1,600km east of Kinshasa) and Ituri (1,800km from Kinshasa). The president has removed all civilians with the DR Congo Military and police forces. Governors and their deputies also have to turn over controle… Read more »
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/may/10/at-least-1m-people-facing-starvation-madagascar-drought-worsens Madagascar’s three year drought along with the pandemic leaves at least one million people in the Grand South faced with the prospect of starvation. What once was a wet climate yielding rice crops and livestock has turned into a dry, malnourished land and people. Due to the lack of rain in the past, farmers were not able to grow… Read more »
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/03/africa/namibia-oil-exploration-intl-cmd/index.html A Canadian company named ReconAfrica has struck oil gold in the Kavango East, Namibia. There is immense controversy surrounding the now oil rich region and what to do with it. The main argument is between letting Namibia use the oil and improve their economy and therefore the wellbeing of the citizens or not let them use due to the… Read more »
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/gunmen-kill-eight-ambush-passing-cars-burundi-2021-05-10/ Eight civilians were killed on a main road in Burundi yesterday, by a gang of armed robbers. Of the eight murdered while driving in their cars, one was a senior military officer. The attack occurred late on sunday night on the road connecting the commercial capital to the political capital, Bujumbura and Gitenga respectively. Along with the eight dead,… Read more »
