Senegal is due to receive around 330,000 pounds ($400,500) in insurance payments from aid organisations to protect against the risk of drought, a spokesperson for the aid groups said on Thursday. The insurance taken out by the Start Network group of humanitarian nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) was triggered on Monday at[Read More…]
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Africa’s ‘Kremlin Propagandists’ On Washington Watchlist
Two African activists have been accused by the United States of participating in a campaign of disinformation on behalf of Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, who founded the mercenary group Wagner. The US State Department claimed that Kémi Séba and Nathalie Yamb “allow Kremlin-linked entities to maintain plausible deniability of Russia’s[Read More…]
African Peacekeepers Quitting Mali
Peacekeepers from Cote d’Ivoire are among those quitting Mali just nine months into their role. In September 2021, at the United Nations, Mali’s Prime Minister, Choguel Kokalla Maiga, chided France for abandoning midair its campaign against the insurgency deploring the partial withdrawal of Barkhane force in his country, which has[Read More…]