Link to article: https://allafrica.com/stories/202112030143.html After a Chinese company built Africa’s largest steel plant in Zimbabwe, industrialization in the country has started to rapidly increase and reverse sanctions imposed by the West. Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa, former Zimbabwean envoy representative in Bejing praised Chinese President Xi Jinping for greenlighting the steel project as far back as 2014. Ambassador Mutsvangwa has stated that… Read more »
Link to article: https://allafrica.com/stories/202111300006.html Certain countries in Africa have started to focus on rebuilding Africa-US relations after the rise of China as a competition. After a recent visit by Antony Blinken to Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal, the US has started to focus on its evolving interest and African Policy. This visit to these countries is a recent attempt by the… Read more »
Link to article: https://allafrica.com/stories/202112020027.html In the Democratic Republic of Congo, hundreds of Ugandan soldiers were deployed on Wednesday, December 1st. The reasoning behind this operation is to secure bases being used by the Islamic affiliated Allied Democratic Forces, or ADF for short. Currently, the military has already launched air and artillery strikes against certain ADF targets. Also, armored cars and… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/fighting-east-congo-pushes-11000-refugees-into-uganda-2021-11-09/ According to the United Nations, a group of armed men in eastern Congo forced 11,000 people across the border into Uganda. Two villages near the eastern border with Uganda and Rwanda were seized by fighters from the M23 rebel group; however, they deny involvement. UN refugee agency UNHCR has stated that the rush into Uganda was… Read more »
Link to article: https://allafrica.com/stories/202110250145.html President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera has committed to opening an Embassy in the United Arab Emirates. This was declared Saturday. The purpose is to ease the living challenges of Malawians and to develop links for trade. In a direct quote from Chakwera, he states, “There are a lot of gains in having an embassy in Dubai since… Read more »
Link to article: https://allafrica.com/stories/202111060018.html Currently, the country of Tanzania has come under fire for its withdrawal from the African Court on Human and People’s rights. In 2019, it became the second country after Rwanda to withdraw the rights of individuals to directly access the African Court. At a conference held last week, court president Justice Imani Aboud says that none… Read more »
