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Photo credit: CNN Burundian soldiers deployed to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo spend days shelling civilians, according to Rwandan President Paul Kagame.   AA reports that the Rwandan leader was highlighting Burundi’s military involvement in the conflict in South Kivu province. However, there was no immediate reaction from Burundi. Burundi formally deployed its troops to Congo in 2023, ostensibly…

Photo credit: AP News As sympathy for immigrants erodes around the world, European nations agreed on Wednesday to consider changes that rights advocates say would weaken migrant protections that have underpinned European law since WWII.   The AP reports that the consensus coalesced as mainstream political parties across Europe have adopted tougher migration policies as a way to blunt…

Photo credit: CNN People traffickers are posting promotional videos featuring innocent young British women flirting to entice male migrants to go to Britain.  Daily Mail reports that clips of the women posted without their consent are being used by criminal gangs to advertise their services, providing irregular migration routes to the UK and Europe, it…

Photo credit: the Guardian In much of West Africa, democracy survives not because citizens defend it, but because soldiers occasionally tolerate it. And you can take that to the bank because it is the brutal truth behind the region’s expanding map of military rule. from Mali to Niger, Burkina Faso to Guinea, coup-makers do not need tanks…

Photo credit: The Guardian The day of reckoning came for Jan Jahanzeb and fellow Afghan Israr Niazal as they were jailed for the rape they committed last May.  Daily Mail reports that the boys, both 17, raped a 15-year-old girl around Midlands Park A day after the rape, Jahaneb was in the park without a care…

I don’t really love talking about Nigerian politics and politicians. That’s for no other reason but my belief that the government should be allowed to commit its wonder, or blunder, as the case may be.  However, recent happenings are forcing me out of my manhole.  I’m sure those who are used to my writings would…

Photo credit: Reuters Tanzania’s government has warned citizens that protests planned for Tuesday would be unlawful and amounted to an attempted coup. Reuters reports that security forces have been deployed heavily in major cities. Activists and the opposition have called for anti-government protests on Tuesday, the anniversary of mainland Tanzania’s independence from Britain, following the violent suppression of…