Recently there has been large scale attacks by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on El Fasher, North Darfur that would target and put civilians lives at risk. The total number of civilians and displaced persons fleeing from neighbouring countries that were put at risk was around 100,000. This blindsided the U.S. and found that both the RSF and the Sudanese… Read more »
As the Democratic Republic of Congo is nearing election time in december there are reports coming out that if they continue to proceed they risk an outbreak of violence as well as a state wide crisis. In 2018 the Democratic Republic of Congo had their first peaceful transition of power with President Félix Tshisekedi taking office. Since taking office security… Read more »
The UN has had a peacekeeping mission in Mali for almost 60 years and is widely known as the deadliest place to be a UN officer. The UN plans to decrease their involvement fully by December, 31 of 2023 with the new Security Council mandate. Close to 13,000 uniformed officers as well as civilian staff will leave Mali and all… Read more »
Link to article: https://issafrica.org/iss-today/too-much-too-fast-somalia-joins-the-east-african-community Somalia is set to join the East African Community (EAC). This intergovernmental organization operates within the political, economic, cultural, and social spheres. Currently, its member states are the Republic of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of Kenya, the Republic of Rwanda, the Republic of South Sudan, the Republic of Uganda, and the… Read more »
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/uganda-plans-hand-over-exclusive-petroleum-supply-deal-vitol-2023-11-01/ After decades of buying energy from private companies, the Ugandan parliament recently tabled a bill to have exclusive rights with the Bahraini energy company Vitol. Under the bill, Uganda will be the sole buyer of this company’s oil, and this change intends to avoid the supply chain issues with their current sellers. As a market worth $1.6 billion for… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67236251 The United States President Joe Biden has decided to expel four countries from the African Growth and Opportunity Act’s (AGOA) list of beneficiaries. Being removed are Uganda, Niger, and the Sub-Saharan countries of Gabon and the Central African Republic (CAR). Previously, these countries reaped the AGOA benefits of duty free access to the United States’ markets… Read more »
Link to article – https://allafrica.com/stories/202311010002.html German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Africa in hopes of strengthening economic ties with the Sub-Saharan region of the continent. In Nigeria, he spoke with the president about a trade relationship between the two countries that would be based in the industry of energy. Liquified gas would be shipped from the large gas reserves of Nigeria,… Read more »