Kennedy Wandera

"The sanctions issued today by the United States unjustly targeting only one party to the peace process misrepresent the reality and distort the facts of the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo."

Rwanda🇷🇼 President Paul Kagame's government says it "regrets One-Sided Sanctions" after President Donald Trump's US 🇺🇸 government imposed sanctions against its military #RDF, and four top military officials over #M23 direct support.

"In exchange for its support for M23, Rwanda has gained access to mineral-rich areas of eastern DRC that contribute to the financing of M23’s armed rebellion."

US President Donald Trump's government has imposed sanctions against Rwanda's Defense Force #RDF and four top military officials "for their direct operational support to the March 23 Movement #M23 and its affiliates in eastern #DRC", a statement from the department of state reads.

But if there is a clearer break, he says, they would either have a "more difficult cohabitation" or the Pastef party, which Sonko leads and which holds a majority in parliament, would revert to being an opposition party.

"Pastef has no problem with either of these options," he adds.

A SPLIT? Senegal's 🇸🇳 Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko now says that he is willing to take his party out of the government and return to opposition if President Bassirou Diomaye Faye breaks from its vision amid rumours of a power struggle between the two party colleagues.

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The camp’s recruits are mainly Ethiopians, but citizens from South Sudan and Sudan, including from the SPLM-N, a Sudanese rebel group that controls territory in Sudan’s neighbouring Blue Nile state, are also present, six officials said

#Ethiopia is hosting a secret camp along with construction for a drone ground control station at a nearby airport to train thousands of fighters for the #RSF paramilitary group in neighbouring #Sudan, according to the satellite imagery and the diplomatic cable.

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At least 227 dead in a collapse at the Rubaya coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo #DRC.

Rubaya produces around 15% of the world's coltan.

The site, where locals dig manually for a few dollars per day, has been under the control of the AFC/M23 rebel group since 2024.

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The list, delivered to United States officials last week, represents Washington's most tangible progress in converting peace and investment deals with Congo into influence over the country's critical-minerals supply chain.

The Democratic Republic of Congo #DRC🇨🇩 has sent Washington a shortlist of state-owned assets - including manganese, copper-cobalt, gold and lithium projects - for U.S. investors to consider as part of a minerals partnership.

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South Africa's former President Thabo Mbeki, through his foundation: Thabo Mbeki Foundation, says Tanzania "currently lacks a legitimate government" as the one in place led by President Samia Suluhu Hassan "has been imposed upon the people through a combination of force and fraudulent means."

Most of the young people have been charged with treason following the unrest that gripped the country on the election day and days after.

“For those who were just following the wave, let them be counselled and released,” President Hassan says.

Tanzania's🇹🇿 President Samia Suluhu Hassan says she believes the young people who poured on the streets demanding for electoral reforms did so because of "peer pressure, incitement and online wave" even as she forms a commission of inquiry to probe the indiscriminate killings by security forces.

Obiang is son and heir apparent to the aging leader of Equatorial Guinea, an impoverished but oil- and gas-rich former Spanish colony. He is in charge of national defense and security and has long faced sanctions from the U.S. and other countries.

The waiver would allow Obiang — notorious among world leaders accused of corruption for a lavish lifestyle — to travel to cities outside of New York. That includes Miami and Los Angeles, where he has owned property and luxury vehicles, some of which he has had to forfeit in legal proceedings.

The temporary pass on U.S. corruption sanctions follows recommendations that it is in the U.S. national interest to blunt growing Chinese influence in the West African country and boost American oil and gas business interests there.

President Donald Trump's US🇺🇸 government is processing a one-month sanctions waiver for the vice president of Equatorial Guinea🇬🇶, Teodoro “Teddy” Nguema Obiang, to travel to a high-level U.N. gathering in New York and visit other American cities.

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However, Lissu objected the move.

"It is what I have been fearing all along that the aim is to turn this trial into a kangaroo court and make a sham
of the entire proceedings," Lissu warned.

President Samia Suluhu Hassan's government had asked the court to ban the livestreaming of the Lissu treason trial.

The state argued that blocking live-streaming is effective in witness protection and protecting the identities of state witnesses testifying against Lissu.

Tanzania's court has now banned live broadcasts of the firebrand opposition leader Tundu Lissu's trial in the high-profile treason case before the Kisutu Resident Magistrate's Court in Dar es Salaam.

The ruling prohibits media outlets from publishing, broadcasting or disseminating witness details.

The security minister said the Frenchman acted “on behalf of the French intelligence service, which mobilized political leaders, civil society actors, and military personnel” in Mali.

There was no immediate word from France, Mali’s former colonial ruler, on the man’s arrest.

The military provided few details about the alleged coup plotters, what it entailed and the French national implicated in it, beyond identifying the man as Yann Vezilier.

Mali's 🇲🇱 military rulers say they have arrested a suspected French🇫🇷 agent and a group of military personnel and civilians, including two Malian generals accused of attempting to destabilize the country in an alleged coup plot. @apnews.com.

Tanzania🇹🇿 blocks election observers from the East Africa Community #EAC and the Southern African Development Community #SADC, both of which it is a member, for its October 29 polls but grants permits to 12 Western observer diplomatic missions based in the country to observe the elections.

Rwanda will be paid by the United States in the form of a grant, the official said, adding that the grant letter was finalized in July. The official declined to say how much the grant was for.

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"Rwanda has agreed with the United States to accept up to 250 migrants, in part because nearly every Rwandan family has experienced the hardships of displacement, and our societal values are founded on reintegration and rehabilitation," Yolande Makolo, spokesperson for the Rwandan government says.

U.S and Rwanda have agreed for the African country to accept up to 250 migrants deported from the United States, President Paul Kagame's government says, stating that the migrants will be provided with "workforce training, healthcare, and accommodation support to jumpstart their lives in Rwanda."

Biya, in power since 1982, has announced he would run for his eighth term in office in Cameroon's presidential election scheduled for October 12. The seven-year term could keep him in office until he is nearly 100. This has prompted an unprecedented public outcry in Cameroon.

The personnel moves, announced in a series of presidential decrees, affect nearly all branches of the armed forces. They include the appointment of new chiefs of staff for the infantry, air force and navy as well as the promotion of eight brigadier generals to the rank of major general.