Category: Rest of Africa

The Americans are still considering what to do about South Africa allowing a specifically sanctioned Russian cargo vessel, the Lady R, to dock at the Simonstown naval command near Cape Town, there allegedly loading weapons, or weapons-related cargo, early last December.

Speaking on June 19 at the ministerial-level pledging event to support the humanitarian response in Sudan and the region, UNHCR boss Filippo Grandi said the tragedy unfolding in Sudan risks spilling over its borders.

The junta of the West African nation announced the decision on June 16, blaming the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali, known by its French acronym Minusma, for failing to respond to the country’s security challenges.

On Monday this week, Igad, for the first time in 16 years had representatives from all its 8 countries after Eritrea rejoined the bloc following a near two-decade self-absence.

On Friday, Comoros President Azali Azzoumani, South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa, Senegal’s Macky Sall, Zambia’s Hakainde Hichilema and Uganda’s former Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda representing President Yoweri Museveni and representatives from Egypt and Congo-Brazzaville, arrived in Kyiv to meet with officials there led by Ukrainian President...

Fiseha Kidane, the Coordinator of the Tigray investigation committee, and also the regional head of peace and security in Tigray said Ethiopian Federal Government entities and Eritrean forces had the major roles in the food aid diversion.

"During the phone talks, at the initiative of the Malian side, the two leaders paid particular attention to trade and economic relations, including the delivery of cereals, fertilisers and fuel from Russia to Mali," the Kremlin said in a press release.

The junta leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan accused Nairobi of having “harboured” sympathies for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), whose leader Mohammed Hamdan Daglo Hemedti was once his deputy, but is now an arch-enemy.

Since April 15, the regular army headed by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has been locked in fighting with paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commanded by his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.

"The United States condemns in the strongest terms the ongoing human rights violations and abuses and horrific violence in Sudan, especially reports of widespread sexual violence and killings based on ethnicity in West Darfur by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias," State Department...