article: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/south-africas-exxaro-gets-numerous-european-requests-coal-2022-04-07/ After Europe announced that they will be introducing sanctions on Russian coal that will be taking effect late in the summer of 2022. This means that European countries are having to look for other sources to get their energy from. One of these other sources is the South African company Exxaro Resources. They reported that they had received… Read more »
article: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/rwandan-court-maintains-hotel-rwanda-heros-25-year-sentence-2022-04-04/ Previously Paul Rusesabagina, famous for being portrayed in the film Hotel Rwanda for sheltering people during the Rwandan genocide, is claimed by the Rwandan government to have supported terrorist actions and was sentenced to 25 years in prison on 8 counts of terrorism. Rusesabagina has stated that he supports and has a large role in the Rwanda Movement… Read more »
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/30/zimbabwe-repossessing-unused-land-from-black-farmers This article talks about how there former president, Robert Mugabe, launched land reforms back in the two thousands forcibly removing white farmers and giving their land back to the black citizens. This was supposed to redress the British colonial legacies however it ended up being a case where a lot of Mugabe’s closest allies ended up getting more land… Read more »
link to article: https://www.dw.com/en/congo-deadly-violence-in-a-national-park/a-61368064?maca=en-rss_en_allafrica_southafrica-10071-xml-mrss It has been reported that park rangers in combination with the Congolese military attacked and burned a village of Batwa people who are indegenous to the land where the Kahuzi-Biega National Park is located, however the government denies these allegations. The Batwa people are an ethnic minority in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and have… Read more »
https://www.africanews.com/2022/04/03/north-kivu-conflict-congolese-refugees-reluctant-to-move-back-to-their-villages/ This article is about that in DR Congo with the continued violence and looming land territory being claimed many refugees are refusing to go back to their villages. This all started when thousands fled from DR Congo to Uganda due to violent clashes that started on March 28th 2022. Together with the government of Uganda and humanitarian partners, they… Read more »
link to article: https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-pull-troops-equipment-un-missions-2022-03-09/ Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian officials have announced that they will be pulling back all of their troops from UN Peacekeeping missions. This comes after the Ukrainian president signed a decree that would return all peacekeeping forces from their missions. Ukraine contributes around 300 troops to six peacekeeping missions around the world with its… Read more »
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/4/south-africa-kwa-zulu-natal-community-fights-coal-mine-expansion This article talks about the dispute over coal mining in South Africa in the Kwa-Zulu Natal community. The Tendele Coal Mine is looking to expand by June twenty twenty two and if an agreement is not reached, they are going to shut down the mine altogether. There is two sides to this argument over expansion as there is the… Read more »
link – https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/legislators-from-great-lakes-region-meet-in-nairobi-3772386 Summary- 10 countries from the Great Lakes region of Africa are sending parliament members to Nairobi for talks about conflict resolution and peace. The international Conference of the Great Lakes Region or ICGLR has 12 members, two of which will not be attending. This is because Sudan has no sitting parliament, and Uganda is mourning Speaker Jacob Oulanya…. Read more »
Link – https://allafrica.com/stories/202204050347.html Summary- Rwanda and Zambia have signed seven pacts so far to deepen relations and bolster bilateral ties. The agreements vary in topic from taxation and immigration to agriculture. The agreements were signed by Zambia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Stanley Kakubo and his Rwandan counterpart Vincent Biruta, and seen by Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and… Read more »
