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Corruption in Uganda has evolved from individual graft into systemic state capture. Research on the subject describes an elite cartel in which opaque networks connect state institutions to politically connected non-state actors, extending well beyond personal enrichment to become a primary instrument of political survival and regime consolidation. Anti-corruption bodies manage rather than eliminate graft, selectively prosecuting defectors while protecting the core of the first family’s financial empire. The proceeds fund the patronage network that keeps the NRM’s base compliant. To obscure this dynamic, the PLU has positioned itself publicly as the vanguard of an anti-corruption agenda within the emerging Muhoozi order.
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Where can East Africans seeking freedom find safety if exile itself offers no refuge?
Tanzanian activist Twaha Mwaipaya has reportedly been abducted in Kenya. His whereabouts remain unknown.
A deeply troubling pattern of transnational repression demands urgent action. Kenyan authorities have a responsibility to establish his whereabouts, ensure his safety, and investigate.
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The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Democratic Republic of Congo has risen above 10,000, government data showed on Tuesday. reuters.com/business/healthc…
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#FreeTwahaMwaipaya
We can do this! Keep taggging everyone and anyone and knock on all doors
Immigration, police and border authorities must prevent any unlawful transfer to Tanzania and urgently investigate information about vehicles and operatives involved. Protect witnesses and other exiled activists. No person may be returned to face torture or other irreparable harm. #FreeTwahaMwaipaya #EndAbductionsEA #PASNet
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A Tanzanian critic of President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s government has been abducted by unknown people in neighboring Kenya, bringing to three such attacks in the East African nation bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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wild story on Russia recruiting soldiers in Africa for Ukraine fight; includes recruiting in DRC
Russia is stepping up recruitment in Africa for its army, turning to countries such as Zimbabwe and Burundi while halting its drive in Kenya and South Africa after opposition. With @DarynaKrasno
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Hamdok’s roadshow continues. Now he wants a meeting in Riyadh, while his own coalition fears the Saudis are peeling off its members. Forum shopping won’t make the questions about his UAE ties disappear. He needs to explain who he represents beyond the people taking these meetings.
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306 people were killed by drone strikes in three weeks, with both sides in Sudan hitting civilian infrastructure, according to the UN.
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I Confirm that, with my approval, earlier this morning, the index case for Nigeria’s first imported Ebola virus disease departed Abuja for Switzerland. The index patient was clinically much improved, stable, conscious, communicating, and her clinical laboratory test results closing towards baseline. This does not mean she is not still infectious, hence the strict protocols in place.
The patient was evacuated along with her spouse who has remained asymptomatic.
I thank all the various clinical staff for the high quality care they provided the patient as well as the public health personnel who ensured the evacuation was carried out in line with best public health measures for such evacuations.
We will provide further updates later this afternoon after the patient and her spouse lands successfully in their destination.
All public health measures are continuing to ensure successful containment of the imported virus. I urge Nigerians to remain vigilant and rely on information from credible sources.
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REPORT: EBOLA PATIENT EVACUATED FROM NIGERIA VIA AIR AMBULANCE
The index patient diagnosed with Ebola virus in Nigeria has been evacuated from the country early this morning through an air ambulance at the private jet wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, ARISE News sources informed us.
ARISE News was tipped off by a news source that the patient who is a woman and wife of a Swiss diplomat in Nigeria would be flown out of Nigeria by 6am this morning through a medivac plane which was already at the airport waiting to evacuate her.
Our crew deployed to the General Aviation Terminal later obtained pictures of the arrival of a convoy of vehicular ambulance from Abuja city centre with diplomatic vehicles in the entourage. The three vehicle convoy had an international Agency vehicle entering the Private Jet section of the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport.
Airport officials cordoned off the private wing of the airport but ARISE News eventually obtained videos of a medivac plane with crews eventually evacuating the sick passenger suspected to be the Ebola index case due to the special nature of the medical evacuation.
A source told ARISE News that the Federal Government will make the announcement of the medical evacuation only after the plane has taken off and exited the Nigerian airspace.
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@TunduALissu survived 16 bullets. After 18 months jailed on a treason charge carrying a possible death sentence, he says he will begin a hunger strike Monday because authorities deny him court-ordered private access to counsel.
The rule of law means nothing if those in power can deny it to their political opponents.
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How a Russian military intelligence agent walked into the private bedroom of the African Union Commission's chairman for 4 minutes of unmonitored espionage:
Uninvited guest: How a GRU spy connected to state hackers broke into the African Union’s diplomatic residence in Ethiopia
A video version of @Dobrokhotov and @michaeldweiss’ latest investigation.
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Ebola cases have stopped declining in Democratic Republic of Congo, with worsening transmission in North Kivu province eroding gains in the outbreak’s original epicenter bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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One additional Ebola case has been confirmed, bringing Kenya’s total to nine. All nine cases are linked to one known cluster, with no evidence of transmission outside the group. Eight patients are stable and responding well to treatment, while 134 of 135 contacts have been traced and quarantined. #EbolaAlertKE
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Nigeria has confirmed one case of Ebola disease in the Federal Capital Territory. The patient, a woman who recently arrived on an international flight from Uganda, had been receiving treatment at a private hospital before the diagnosis was confirmed on Tuesday.
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South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday that the country must prepare for its potential exclusion from the United States' duty-free trade initiative, AGOA, as relations between Washington and Pretoria have soured. reuters.com/world/china/sout…
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President of Cameroon, the 93-year-old Paul Biya, is expected to visit Cameroon next week!
He will have a two-week working trip before returning to Geneva, Switzerland, where he lives.
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Kenya: The Department of State increased its Travel Advisory for Kenya from Level 2 (Exercise Increased Caution) to Level 3 (Reconsider Travel). American travelers can review the entire Travel Advisory at travel.state.gov/en/internat…
ALT Travel Advisory Level 3 - Reconsider Travel - Kenya. travel.state.gov/destination
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Belgian police raided the homes of several relatives and associates of Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi on Wednesday as part of an investigation into money laundering linked to mining revenues, two lawyers who filed the complaint said. reuters.com/world/africa/bel…
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📹 President Mnangagwa, speaking at the start of a Zanu PF politburo meeting, takes direct aim at his deputy Constantino Chiwenga for not attending a “Presidential Fundraising Ball” last Saturday.
“Some of you came, some of you did not come, but you’re members of the politburo.”
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Reckless indeed. And something international policymakers were warned about for months. There was never a coherent game plan for the Kabila factor. Too many competing agendas, too little reckoning with what is actually driving this war.
This is absolutely crazy. Joseph Kabila has joined the AFC/M23 — which is changing its name to the Front pour la Refondation de la Nation.
The peace process is presumably well and truly dead.
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