Category: East Africa

The chairperson of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC), Gen (rtd) Charles Gituai says the South Sudan authorities have to either hold elections according to the 2018 or renegotiate a new deal that would allow them to hold elections outside the agreement.

Sunak has invested huge political capital in the Rwanda scheme before an election later this year he is predicted to lose, saying it will help meet his pledge to stop thousands of people arriving in Britain without permission in small boats.

Instead, Nairobi said on Monday that it would unveil Veronica Mueni Nduva as the regional bloc’s next secretary-general ahead of an extraordinary meeting of the EAC Council of Ministers on Tuesday 16 April. 

Some of these narratives have also [punctuated] Rwanda’s relationships abroad with some countries praised and blamed in equal measure for having a hand in it.

On April 5, Éric Nkuba, a strategic and political adviser to Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) leader Corneille Nangaa, who had been arrested in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and then extradited to Kinshasa, named the former Congolese president as one of the military supporters of the AFC rebels.

Landlocked Ethiopia sparked a diplomatic row with Mogadishu in January by signing a deal with Somaliland to lease 20 kilometres of its coastline in return for recognising the region as an independent state.

He said it bothered him that South Africa and other SADC countries never reached out to Rwanda which is currently in direct tension with the DRC over the conflict in eastern Congo.

Landlocked Ethiopia agreed on January 1 to lease 20 kilometres of coastline in Somaliland, a part of Somalia which claims independence and has had effective autonomy since 1991, offering possible recognition of Somaliland in exchange.

Following the cessation of a civil war in 2018 and the attainment of independence in 2011, South Sudan was initially scheduled to hold elections before February 2023.

Sunak wants to relocate thousands of asylum seekers who arrive in Britain on small boats each year to Rwanda, but legal challenges have so far prevented anyone being sent there.