I want to bring my main focus of this analysis post to Kenya delaying the closure of the world’s largest refugee camp. I think that they are right to close it because it is a security threat. The majority of the camp are Somali refugees and they could easily carry out an attack on the Kenyans. Over the past year,… Read more »
(NYT.com) A long-running conflict between armed rebels and Ugandan security forces in a remote district near the Democratic Republic of Congo border escalated Sunday when Ugandan troops moved against a tribal king. Gunfire erupted outside the palace of Charles Wesley Mumbere, the king of the Bakonzo people, when the Ugandan troops tried to disarm Mr. Mumbere’s guards and arrest him…. Read more »
(CNN.com) The 355-page State of Capture report contained allegations, and in some instances evidence, of cronyism, questionable business deals and ministerial appointments at the very top of government. The President, his son Duduzane Zuma, government ministers, the board of South Africa’s state power utility, Eskom, and the Gupta family — brothers Ajay, Atul and Rajesh Gupta — are all implicated… Read more »
(France 24) Kenya said on Wednesday it had to agreed to delay the closure of a huge Somali refugee camp that it sees as a security risk, after international pressure to give residents more time to find new homes. Nairobi had vowed to shut Dadaab camp this month, saying it was being used by Islamist militants from neighbouring Somalia who… Read more »
(France24) A top advisor to Burundi’s president and the most public face of the government has escaped an assassination attempt in the capital Bujumbura, officials said Tuesday. Willy Nyamitwe was returning home on Monday night when “he was met with sustained gunfire and grenade explosions”, a high-ranking presidential official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity, One of his bodyguards… Read more »
One thing I found very interesting is that the US admits that it was not Al-Shabab that bombed allied forces in Somalia but the US accidentally did this itself. I found this very interesting because I would have thought we would know the exact positions of our allies in other countries. As we know Al-Shabab is allied with Al Queda,… Read more »
(France24) South African President Jacob Zuma survived a no-confidence vote on Thursday, after the anti-graft watchdog called in a report for a judicial inquiry into allegations of influence-peddling in the government. The scandal highlighted in the report has rattled investors in Africa’s most industrialised country and raised the risk the stagnating economy’s credit ratings will be downgraded. Zuma, 74, had… Read more »
(BBC)An airstrike in Somalia that the US said had targeted al-Shabab actually killed 10 members of an allied local militia, US media report, quoting an unpublished Pentagon investigation. The US says it carried out the September strike to protect Puntland forces who came under fire during an operation against al-Shabab militants. The strike sparked anti-American protests among local communities. The… Read more »
(aljazeera.com) Fighting between militias in Somalia’s central Galkayo city killed at least 29 people and wounded more than 50, officials from both sides said on Monday. Colonel Mohamed Aden, a military officer from the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, said 16 soldiers serving in the region’s army had been killed and 30 been wounded since fighting broke out again on Sunday…. Read more »
(aljazerra.com)Kenya has deported a South Sudanese rebel spokesman – a registered refugee – back to his war-torn country where he could face detention and abuse at the hands of the Juba government. Human rights groups and the United Nations on Friday called the move a breach of international law. Kenyan government spokesman Eric Kiraithe told the Associated Press news agency… Read more »