On July 9, 2021, the government of Rwanda said that it had deployed 1,000 troops to Mozambique to battle al-Shabaab fighters, who had seized the northern province of Cabo Delgado. A month later, on August 8, Rwandan ...
On February 18, 2010, Anadarko Moçambique—a subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum (bought by Occidental Petroleum in 2019)—discovered a massive natural gas field in the Rovuma Basin off the coast of northern Mozambique. Over the next few years, some ...
Leo Zeilig is a writer and researcher. He has written extensively on African politics and history, including books on working-class struggle and the development of revolutionary movements, and biographies on some of Africa’s most important ...
In its preparation for great power competition, the US military is modernizing its artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques and testing them in West Africa. (By: Scott Timcke, Africa is a Country) — One striking ...
Three years ago, on October 5, 2017, fighters with the Al Sunnah wa Jama’ah (ASWJ) entered the town of Mocímboa da Praia in northern Mozambique. They attacked three police stations, and then withdrew. Since then, this ...
AFRICOM acknowledges 46 bombings of claimed militant targets this year, while critics warn that harm to innocent civilians continues to fuel the very terrorism such strikes are purportedly meant to destroy. (By: Brett Wilkins, Common ...
The US has roughly 6,000 military personnel scattered throughout the continent with military attachés outnumbering diplomats in many embassies across Africa. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) A new report published in South African newspaper The Mail and Guardian has shed light ...
Last year, at least 30 rich countries exported locally-banned toxic substances to poorer ones, allowing corporations to write off their costly waste and transferring the costs to some of the poorest people on earth. (By: ...
A new biometric identity platform partnered with the Gates-funded GAVI vaccine alliance and Mastercard will launch in West Africa and combine COVID-19 vaccinations, cashless payments, and potential law enforcement applications. (By: Raul Diego, Mintpress News) ...
The U.S. may soon take sides in a potential water war over the Nile River. The $4.5 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is reaching the mature stage of construction, with Ethiopia announcing its intent to begin ...
“After nine years of promises without proper action and decades of pollution, the people of Ogoniland are not only sick of dirty drinking water, oil-contaminated fish and toxic fumes. They are sick of waiting for ...
Last week the Sudanese Council of Ministers passed an amendment to the nation’s criminal code to make performing female genital mutilation a crime. Last week the Sudanese Council of Ministers passed an amendment to the ...
Bill Cosby was always a rapist monster. That much, hindsight and evidence make clear. Still, moored in our “Me Too” moment, it’s easy to forget how profound and influential the man, and the network smash hit, The Cosby ...
Days before an export ban took effect, 32 wild-caught elephants were flown out of Zimbabwe to China. The secrecy around the ongoing capture and trade of the nation’s wildlife exposes lack of accountability, transparency and ...
Libya’s political future has yet to be decided, but it will deeply impact Europe’s future and the battle against Islamic radicalism. A stone’s throw away from Europe, Libya’s internal strife is ringing ever present in ...
“For Salamé, who is from Lebanon, this kind of multidimensional conflict is not unfamiliar; nor is it peculiar to have several foreign countries intervene for their own narrow ends and thereby make peace impossible.” Ghassan ...
“Does a crisis really happen if it is not in the headlines? YES.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Out of the top 10 most under-reported humanitarian crises in the world last year—many of them climate-related—nine ...
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published a tranche of documents implicating Africa’s richest women in mismanagement of Angola’s state oil company. Newly-leaked documents revealed Isabel dos Santos, daughter of former Angolan President José Eduardo ...
Promising signs that the Libyan civil war was approaching an end on Monday gave way to news on Tuesday that General Haftar walked away from a Russian-brokered ceasefire. Only a day after Russia’s foreign minister ...
Libya’s warring parties are expected to sign a ceasefire and a ‘political settlement’ that will resolve the country’s seven-year-long civil war on Tuesday. Following intense negotiations in the Russian capital, Moscow this Monday, Libya’s warring ...
“We are not Muslims, we are not Christians, we are not Arabs, we are not Africans, we are Sudanese.” – Secretary General of Sudan’s Council of Churches, Father William Deng For the first time in ...
“These companies – the richest companies in the world, these fancy gadget-making companies – have allowed children to be maimed and killed to get their cheap cobalt.” Apple, Google, Microsoft, Tesla and Dell have been ...
The U.S. announced sanctions targeting two South Sudanese officials as a deadline for forming a national unity government is again moved back. After much frustration over stalled efforts to form a unity government in South ...
“The US sanctions will shape the trajectory of this transitional government. If it goes wrong it will take years to reverse the damage.” In an exclusive interview with The Independent on Sunday, Sudanese Prime Minister ...
A decree was passed yesterday prohibiting the participation of al-Bashir’s National Congress Party (NCP) in political activities for 10 years. The properties and assets of the party are to be confiscated and its members removed ...
After signing a peace deal last year to end South Sudan’s six-year-long civil war, the country is still struggling to form a transitional government. Violent clashes were reported Thursday in South Sudan, leaving two people ...
The U.S. has grown increasingly wary of South Sudan’s failure to form a national unity government, yet U.S. officials have refused to take firm action despite previous warnings. Sudanese Defense Minister Jamal Edlin Omar met ...
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister of Ethiopia is struggling to contain a recent outbreak of violent protests sparked by a rival leader. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmad announced the new death toll from October ...
Houthi rebels in Yemen accused Saudi Arabia of bearing responsibility for the deaths of thousands of Sudanese soldiers during the Yemen War. In a televised press conference over the weekend, a spokesperson for the Yemen-based ...
Egypt and Ethiopia are locked in a stalemate over the massive Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project that Egypt worries could curtail their water supply. In response to Tuesday remarks that suggested the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy ...
Europe does not have a refugee or migration crisis. The real crisis is in Africa, where the thief—often a European firm—continues to undermine the continent’s ability to breathe. If you ask an African migrant in ...
“As the renewable energy sector finds its feet, it is crucial that it introduces rigorous human rights protections throughout its supply chains.” A corporate watchdog found last month that most of the top global companies ...
After six years of war following its independence, South Sudan is attempting to form a transitional government by November 12. Amidst the failure of leaders in South Sudan to realize a national unity government, a ...
While Tunisia’s post-Arab Spring transition has been relatively smooth compared to neighboring countries, low voter turnout and lack of a clear election winner suggests a shaky road ahead for Tunisian politics. Eight years ago Tunisians ...
“This is just one of many cases of the U.S. military wantonly tarnishing large parts of the Somali population with the ‘terrorist’ label.” A new report from Amnesty International finds that three Somalian men killed ...
Sudan is eager to be removed from the U.S.’ list of states that harbor terrorism but also not ready to normalize relations with Israel. On the sideline of the meeting between Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla ...
After a disastrous civil war and much negotiation between opposing factions, South Sudan is beginning to form a transitional government. Both the president of South Sudan Salva Kiir and the rebel leader Riek Machar agreed ...
While many challenges lie ahead for Sudan’s new government, 18 cabinet members have already been named to serve out the coming three-year transitional period. The beginnings of a new Sudanese cabinet – the first since ...
Testimony by a high-ranking police officer was a part of the Sudanese court hearing Monday, Aug. 19. The officer said that Omar Al Bashir had admitted that some of the money he kept for himself ...
Egypt’s economy is bouncing back from years of political turmoil and uncertainty with impressive economic growth rates. After India and Uganda, Egypt is ranked as the world’s third fastest-growing economy for the upcoming ten years, ...
The Open Arms ship, a migrant rescue boat run by Spanish charity Proactiva, has been stuck at sea for over two weeks as migrants onboard await their fate while Italy debates their future. Italian Prime ...
The U.S. claimed it has “credible information” that a former Sudanese security official was involved in torture during his term as the nation’s security chief. The American administration announced on Wednesday it was banning the ...
As forests around the world continue to shrink, reforestation efforts have begun gaining momentum. “In a record-breaking day this week, at the Gulele Botanical Garden in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia launched an [sic] historic tree planting campaign. Over 350 million trees ...
Sudan’s military announced all officers involved in the Monday deaths of protestors were fired and will be brought to justice. The news brings hope a civil government will soon form. A spokesman for Sudan’s Transitional ...
Only weeks after Sudan celebrated the signing of a power-sharing agreement between Sudan’s military and opposition groups, five high schoolers were killed by Sudan’s military while protesting. Sudanese transitional authorities decided on Tuesday to suspend ...
A new batch of leaked documents, dubbed the Mauritius Leaks, shows how multinational corporations dodge taxes by setting up shop in corporate tax-friendly remote locations. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published a bombshell ...
According to the power-sharing agreement, a total of six civilians and five military leaders will rule the country until an election is held in three years. Following weeks of deadly protests and a series of ...
The fate of Libya may be determined by which side bought the better public relations team. (By Reid Champlin, Center for Responsive Politics) The Libyan civil war rages well into its eighth year as warlord Khalifa ...
Sudan’s power-sharing deal will include a joint investigation of recent waves of violence across Sudan and the formation of a technocrat government of independent national figures. The Sudanese opposition Coalition of Freedom and Change said ...
“The latest air strike could constitute a war crime that has caused hideous and most tragic deaths.” At least 44 civilians including women and children, believed to be African migrants, were reportedly killed and more ...
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