Ebola outbreak could become the worst ever
Originating in DRC’s eastern region, torn by proxy war for minerals, the Ebola outbreak could become the worst ever, Africa CDC warns.
Rwandan military and M23 are committing war crimes in occupied eastern DR Congo: HRW
The report documents mass arrests, forced labor, child soldiers, torture, and summary executions at M23 training camps where uniformed Rwandan military personnel are often guards or instructors.
Shack dwellers protest bill that would criminalize land struggles in South Africa
Allowing courts to order evictions without a provision for alternative accommodation, the PIE Amendment Bill also criminalizes activism for the land rights of the urban poor, protests Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), South Africa’s radical shack dwellers’ movement.
Mozambique expands state ownership of mines; bans raw material exports
Mozambique’s president signed a new law granting the National Mining Company (ENM) a free 15% stake across the stages of the mining value chain.
‘We are all in this fight together’: farmers rally against Bangalore’s expanding AI-powered satellite city
Arriving in solidarity from several villages around Bangalore, farmers marched with red flags to join the protest defending 9,600 acres of fertile, irrigated, multi-cropped land from acquisition to expand the city.
Drone strikes on a market in North Kordofan kill 11 more in Sudan
Fighting has been intensifying in the Kordofan region, which connects the army-controlled national capital, Khartoum, to its east, to the RSF-controlled western region of Darfur.
Sudanese army on a counter-offensive to recapture the strategic city on the Ethiopian border
The recapture of Kurmuk is imperative for the army to restrict the RSF’s supply from Ethiopia and check its advance in Blue Nile State, which will secure a gateway to central Sudan.
Attack on DRC’s Bangoka Airport is a “war crime”: Governor of Tshopo province
This is not the first attack on the strategic airport in the northeastern city of Kisangani, capital of the Tshopo province bordering the Kivu region, where the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group is waging a war for mineral wealth.