News briefs
Regular digests of news on the countries SALO follows, compiled by SALO researchers.
DRC - 8 July 2016
UN concerned about DRC violence ahead of polls The UN Security Council has heard that in the absence of political dialogue that results in an inclusive agreement leading to credible elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country …
Africa - 24 June 2016
Uganda Says to Pull Troops Out of Somalia by End of 2017 Uganda plans to withdraw its troops from Somalia by December 2017, signalling it is scaling back regional military interventions after it said it planned a similar pullback from …
Zimbabwe - 24 June 2016
Cash-strapped Zimbabwe rejects single currency regime The Zimbabwean government would not adopt a sole official trading unit. According to the Finance and Economic Development Minister, Patrick Chinamasa, the government would maintain a …
Swaziland - 24 June 2016
High Commissioner to UK Slams Allegations By Maid Swaziland’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Her Excellency Dumisile Sukati has strongly refuted reports that she trafficked her housekeeper Zanele Shongwe to London in 2011. In a …
Madagascar - 24 June 2016
Is The Race for Madagascar’s Resources About to Get Underway? A part of the world where a small but potentially important news item emerged in the mining world this week - from the rising resource power of South Korea. As I saw firsthand in …
Western Sahara - 24 June 2016
Morocco offers to let some UN Western Sahara mission staff back Morocco has proposed allowing around 25 civilian staff to immediately return to the United Nations peacekeeping mission in disputed Western Sahara in a sign that tensions …
South Sudan - 24 June 2016
UN to send peacekeepers home over South Sudan inaction The United Nations has said that it will send peacekeepers home over a “lack of responsiveness” during a bloody attack on a UN-run camp in South Sudan in February. UN peacekeeping chief …
Sudan - 24 June 2016
AUHIP chief declines to negotiate supplemental agreement with Sudan Call groups The head of the African Union High Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) has declined a proposal by Sudanese opposition groups to negotiate a supplemental document …
Central African Republic - 24 June 2016
Bemba Gets 18 Years for Central African Republic War Crimes Jean-Pierre Bemba is the first person to be convicted by the ICC of crimes of sexual violence in war. Congolese politician Jean-Pierre Bemba was sentenced to 18 years in prison by …
Somalia - 24 June 2016
Somalia President says electoral process for August ‘critical’ The meeting of National Leadership Forum (NLF) has proceeded into its second day with urgently pressing agendas on the table, Garowe Online reports. Speaking in Southwestern …
DRC - 24 June 2016
US Imposes Sanctions on Kinshasa Police Chief in DRC The United States has imposed sanctions on Kinshasa’s police chief in the Democratic Republic of Congo for violence and the murder of civilians. All U.S. assets belonging to Celestin …
Africa - 17 June 2016
Japan backs African call for UN Security Council reform Japan said Thursday that it will support calls by Africa – and Turkey – for UN Security Council reform when it takes the council’s helm next month. Masakazu Hamachi, the Japanese …
Zimbabwe - 17 June 2016
Perm Sec in U.S.$1,7 Million Scandal Secretary for Mines and Mining Development Professor Francis Gudyanga allegedly ordered the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) to pay a Harare-based agricultural firm over $1,3 million …
Swaziland - 17 June 2016
Swaziland Prepares for 36th SADC Summit The Kingdom of Swaziland is intensifying preparations for the annual regional summit where southern African countries will review progress towards deepening integration and promoting socio-economic …
Madagascar - 17 June 2016
The Diaspora Comes Together to Contribute to Madagascar’s Development An estimated 120,000 members of the Malagasy diaspora are scattered across all of the world’s continents, and there are at least 2,000 organizations around the globe …
Western Sahara - 17 June 2016
Moroccan and Venezuelan Diplomats Clash at UN Over Western Sahara The Special Committee on decolonization, officially called the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of …
South Sudan - 17 June 2016
More than 230 000 South Sudanese in Sudan The UN says Sudan is hosting the largest number of South Sudanese refugees, with 232 000 having entered since a civil war erupted in the neighbouring country at the end of 2013. South Sudan won …
Sudan - 17 June 2016
Five million in Sudan need aid — EU More than 5 million people in Sudan need urgent assistance after new displacements in Darfur and a surge of refugees arriving from South Sudan, a top European Commission official said on Wednesday. The …
Central African Republic - 17 June 2016
Ban welcomes Central African Republic President’s resolve to seek all-inclusive resolution to crisis Meeting today with Faustin Archange Touadéra, President of the Central African Republic (CAR), United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon …
Somalia - 17 June 2016
Number of Child Soldiers in Somalia May Top 5,000, UN Reports A top official with the U.N. Children’s Fund says there could be 5,000 child soldiers in Somalia as al-Shabab continues its recruiting campaigns. In an interview with VOA Somali, …