Link to article: https://allafrica.com/stories/202111260345.html On November 25, 2021, the Embassy of Israel in Rwanda gave a cow to at least 20 vulnerable families in the Rulindo District. The Ambassador of Israel to Rwanda, Ron Adam, said that a cow is the most sustainable support that can be given, since it can provide milk and fertilizer, as well as being a… Read more »
Link to article: https://allafrica.com/stories/202111300105.html Reports have surfaced that Uganda may lose their only international airport to China due to failure to honor a $200 million loan agreement, though Ugandan officials are dismissing these reports, along with the Chinese embassy in Uganda. The Uganda Civil Aviation Authority spokesperson, Vianney Luggya, also says that it is false that Uganda would lose their… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/congo-denies-agreeing-joint-operations-with-ugandan-army-2021-11-29/ On Monday, November 29, 2021, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s government declined participation in joint operations with the Ugandan army against Islamic State rebels accused of suicide bombing. The Congolese government also insisted that the DRC and Uganda were only sharing intelligence. The Islamic State claimed that its local affiliate, the Allied Democratic Forces, were behind… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/armed-men-seize-congo-villages-near-uganda-rwanda-border-2021-11-08/ Around 11 PM on Sunday November 7, gunmen stormed and captured at least two villages simultaneously in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo near the border with Rwanda and Uganda. Lieutenant Colonel Muhindo Luanzo blamed gunmen from M23, a rebel group that captured large amounts of territory in 2012 and 2013. The two captured villages,… Read more »
Link to article: https://f24.my/87R9 Along Burkina Faso’s tri-border region with Niger and Mali, around 10 civilians were murdered by suspected jihadists, likely members of the Islamic State extremist group, and four were kidnapped. This happened near the border with Niger. This happened just days before 69 people were killed by gunmen in Niger, near the volatile tri-border as well. Troops… Read more »
Link to article: https://allafrica.com/stories/202111040097.html On November 3rd, 2021, the US State Department announced that Jeffrey Feltman, the US special envoy for the Horn of Africa, will travel to Ethiopia on November 4 for a two-day visit due to the escalating conflict between Ethiopia and its Tigray region. On November 2nd, after a year of fighting, the Ethiopian government declared a… Read more »