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Four Die During Anti-Government Protests Over Kenya Fuel Hikes

Kingsley Oyong Akam19 May 2026

NAIROBI — Four people have been killed and more than 30 injured in protests against fuel price hikes prompted by the Iran war in several Kenyan towns on Monday, the interior minister said, after a nationwide public transport strike stranded commuters. Interior Minister Kipchumba Murkomen confirmed the deaths and injuries following unrest that erupted after...

Uganda Passes Tough New Foreign Influence Law Despite Rights Concerns

Kingsley Oyong Akam19 May 2026

KAMPALA — Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has signed into law a contentious measure to curb foreign influence after parliament scaled back provisions that had drawn criticism from financial institutions over potentially hampering remittances and development work. The bill criminalises promotion of the “interests of a foreigner against the interests of Uganda” and bans anyone working...

US Deports West Africans to Sierra Leone — First Plane Arrives May 20

Kingsley Oyong Akam16 May 2026

FREETOWN — Sierra Leone has agreed to take in hundreds of West African migrants who are being deported by the United States, its foreign minister told Reuters, the latest such deal by the Trump administration as it tries to accelerate removals. The first flight of so-called third-country deportees will arrive in Sierra Leone on May...

825,000 Sudanese Children Face Severe Malnutrition as War Rages On

Kingsley Oyong Akam15 May 2026

CAIRO — Some 19.5 million Sudanese people, or more than 40 percent of the population, are facing acute hunger, according to a report by a global hunger monitor, as the contours of a war that has created the world’s worst hunger crisis shift. The spread of hunger and famine has become a hallmark of the...

Somalia Faces Return of Famine Threat as Humanitarian Funding Collapses

Kingsley Oyong Akam15 May 2026

NAIROBI — Areas of southern Somalia are at risk of famine, two global food security monitors said on Thursday, with one district reaching a level of hunger not seen in the country since 2022. One of the world’s most food-insecure nations due to frequent drought, conflict, and poverty, Somalia last experienced famine in 2011, when...

The Rwandan Death Squad: Killings, Rapes, and Congo’s Nightmare

Kingsley Oyong Akam14 May 2026

DAKAR — M23 rebels and the Rwandan army carried out killings, rapes, and abductions during a month-long occupation of Uvira in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in late 2025 and early 2026, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday. The rebels briefly captured the city of Uvira in December and withdrew weeks later...

Sofa Cash Scandal: Ramaphosa Battles Fresh Calls to Step Down

Kingsley Oyong Akam12 May 2026

JOHANNESBURG — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa faced down calls to resign on Monday over a long-running scandal in which thieves stole a large sum of foreign currency hidden in a sofa at his Phala Phala game farm. In a televised address to the nation, Ramaphosa said he respected the Constitutional Court ruling that revived...

British Paratroopers Reach Isolated Tristan da Cunha With Emergency Supplies

Kingsley Oyong Akam12 May 2026

MADRID — British paratroopers have dropped onto Britain’s most remote overseas territory, Tristan da Cunha, along with medics and medical supplies, after a case of suspected hantavirus was confirmed there. A team of six paratroopers and two military clinicians from 16 Air Assault Brigade jumped from an RAF A400M transport aircraft that flew 6,788 kilometres...

Uganda Passes Scaled-Back Sovereignty Law After Central Bank Warning

Kingsley Oyong Akam11 May 2026

Uganda’s parliament passed legislation to curb alleged foreign influence after scaling back proposed restrictions on funding from abroad that the central bank governor said risked “economic disaster.” The proposal, entitled “The Protection of Sovereignty Bill,” was adopted late on Tuesday and now awaits the signature of President Yoweri Museveni. Museveni, who has been in power...

France Turns to East Africa After Losing Ground in West African States

Kingsley Oyong Akam9 May 2026

NAIROBI — France is turning to East Africa after losing ground in its former West African colonies, seeking to deepen ties elsewhere on the continent next week at an Africa summit in the Kenyan capital Nairobi — its first in an English-speaking country. With a year left in his presidency, French President Emmanuel Macron is...

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