https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/business/2023/10/kenya-china-patnership-to-accelerate-infrastracture-development/ Summary: The Beijing government will enhance its partnership with China in infrastructure development among other areas. The President of Kenya made remarks during a meeting with Mr Li Xi, a senior member of China’s Communist Party Political bureau in Beijing, China.President William Ruto asked Chinese investors to take advantage of Kenya’s conducive business environment to foster mutually beneficial partnerships…. Read more »
https://allafrica.com/stories/202310110430.html Summary: After Nigers coup in July, French relations deteriorated quickly when France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, showed support and backed Nigers president, Bazoum. The Niger junta quickly demanded that France withdraw their troops, and accused them of accumulating forces in neighboring states, against them. France refused, and said that they would only recognize the president. However, recently, after food shortages… Read more »
https://allafrica.com/stories/202310150132.html Summary: The Biden administration has now declared the coup in Niger as a coup officially. They had held off on declaring it a coup, because doing so would activate US laws requiring the cut off of all security cooperation, development assistance, and economic support. The US administration had hoped they could make a deal with the junta to keep… Read more »
Link to article: https://allafrica.com/stories/202309200341.html First of all, a brief explanation of the acronyms: Summary: The UPDF bombed ADF camps after hearing word that they were going to kill Ugandans with home-made bombs. “Those bankrupt criminals, were in the areas of Mambasa territory, beyond the areas we had been allowed to operate in by the Congo government, initially,” President Museveni of… Read more »
Deaths Reported in DR Congo Amid Anti-UN Protest Link to article(s): https://allafrica.com/stories/202309210265.htm https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00086848.html Summary: The Democratic Republic of the Congo President Felix Tshisekedi requested that his government move quickly to evacuate the United Nations peacekeeping mission, so it could be by the end of the year. The mission, known as the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic… Read more »
Link to article: https://allafrica.com/stories/202309110070.html Summary: When a junta seized power in Niger on 26 July, joint military operations against jihadists between Niger and France were suspended. French troops, ordered to stay in their barracks, face an uncertain future as diplomatic wrangling over a possible pull-out continues. The old government (the only one France recognizes) was very pro-French, and the new… Read more »
