Need updates on Rep. of Congo/DRC + Sudan etc as well

don't know how much new information has been coming out if any at all

facebook.com/SudaneseCommunistParty?mibextid=kFxxJD

follow

i don’t have an account on that site. any good alternatives they use?

its not quite as active but they also have a twitter

abahlali.org/node/17757

abahlali basemjondolo calls for revolutionaries to vote for EFF

which websites do y'all use to keep up with african politics, specifically western africa (ghana, nigeria, cameroon, etc.)?

black agenda report

blackagendareport.com/articlelist/africa

Would someone be up for making Sudan and/or Congo threads?

Having a hard time finding reliable information and keeping up but what I do catch is insane

seems like this thread is satisfactory for discussing this, what exactly are you trying to keep up with

I have a few thoughts on this

There have been times I've had current happenings in the title like to do with sudan or congo so if you have suggestions of stuff to add in the title stuff thats particularly urgent or something new is popping off im down to add that,

I'm interested in what coverage you have been catching and why is it insane,

I do think that there's not that much constant discussion in this sxn in general about those countries but people will contribute to a thread if they wanna talk about it

I've also been wanting more coverage of sudan and congo but I'll try to find a few articles on each to throw some stuff out there

Sudan

africanews.com/2024/05/18/sudan-un-condemns-escalation-of-violence-in-el-fasher-in-darfur

The U.N. Human Rights chief Volker Turk expressed horror at the escalating violence situation in Sudan's El Fasher in Darfur where hostilities between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces are severely impacting civilians.

"At least 58 civilians are reported to have been killed and 213 others injured in El Fasher since fighting dramatically escalated last week, and these figures are certainly an underestimate," Ravina Shamdasani, the spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) told a news briefing in Geneva.

Shamdasani said Turk had held phone conversations with both sides and had urged them to put aside entrenched positions and take specific, concrete steps to cease hostilities and to ensure the effective protection of civilians.

“We warned both commanders that fighting in El Fasher, where more than 1.8 million residents and internally displaced people are currently encircled and at imminent risk of famine, would have a catastrophic impact on civilians, and it would deepen intercommunal conflict with disastrous humanitarian consequences.”

On Wednesday, Clementine Nkweta-Salami, the top U.N. humanitarian official in the war-ravaged country, told a U.N. news conference that hostilities in El Fasher have been escalating and clashes over the weekend and early this week caused dozens of casualties and displaced many more of the 800,000 people still in the city.

She said the Sudanese people were trapped in a situation of brutal violence with famine, disease and fighting closing in and no end in sight.

Earlier this month, the U.N. food agency warned Sudan’s warring parties that there is a serious risk of widespread starvation and death in Darfur and elsewhere in Sudan if they don’t allow humanitarian aid into the vast western region.
Sudan plunged into conflict in mid-April 2023, when long-simmering tensions between its military led by Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces commanded by Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, broke out into street battles in the capital, Khartoum.

Fighting has spread to other parts of the country, especially urban areas and the vast western Darfur region, and the U.N. says over 14,000 people have been killed and 33,000 injured.

The paramilitary forces, known as the RSF, have gained control of most of Darfur and are besieging the key city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur and the only capital they don’t hold.

On April 15, donors pledged $2.1 billion in humanitarian aid for Sudan, but Nkweta-Salami said the U.N.’s $2.7 billion humanitarian appeal -- to help nearly 15 million of the country’s 58 million people -- is just 12% funded.

Congo

africanews.com/2024/05/09/families-of-congo-attack-victims-mourn-their-losses

Families of the victims of last week's bomb attacks in eastern Congo mourned their loved ones at a ceremony in Goma.

The bombings at Mugunga and Lac Vert camps killed 18 and injured 32. The type of explosives used remains unclear. Most victims were women and children.

Eye witness

Alimeti Kigiho, who survived the attack, had sought shelter from eastern Congo's long war at the Mugunga displacement camp in February, only to be shaken by explosions while going to fetch water.

He ran back to his tent, where he found the bodies of his wife and two young children, aged 6 and 2, in pieces.

"War has taken everything from me," Kigiho, 45, told the Associated Press.

Who is to blame?

The Congolese army and a rebel group known as M23 have blamed each other for the bombings. The March 23 Movement, or M23, is a rebel military group mainly made up of ethnic Tutsis that broke away from the Congolese army 12 years ago.

The decades-long conflict in eastern Congo has produced one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, with over 100 armed groups fighting in the region, most for land and control of mines with valuable minerals.

Some are fighting to try to protect their communities. Many groups are accused of carrying out mass killings, rapes and other human rights violations.

Accusations

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi accuses neighbouring Rwanda of destabilizing Congo by backing the M23 rebels. U.N. experts, along with the U.S. State Department, have also accused Rwanda of backing the rebels. Rwanda denies the claims.

Some of the mourners at the ceremony on Monday criticized President Tshisekedi along with the international community for failing to end the long-running conflict.

"If he is unable to end this war, he should resign," Bienfait Bonane, a youth from Goma, told the Associated Press.

The violence has displaced about 7 million people, including thousands living in temporary camps like the ones attacked last week. Many others are beyond the reach of aid.

The attacks have driven some residents in the camp to consider returning to their homes, despite the dangers that caused them to flee in the first place.

bump because dam these are interesting too

apnews.com/article/congo-kinshasa-gunfire-1a148e35f0cbbae14b2101413f788708

fascist coup in the Congo averted, Christian Malanga got his dumb ass clapped

that us embassy in congo statement

@Snowboy @spongebob gonna get back to the both of you sometime later my bad

The closer SA gets to the elections the less excited I get, our opposition parties are useless

@Speak this is new and the videos i’ve seen before are fairly helpful in breaking it down if you’re interested

Thank you
You too @JaeRell

bro is yapping and being stereotypical. everyone already knows the sahel is the current hotbed of pan-africanism, the election in south africa doesnt prove something. if you wanna have a conversation about the anti-immigration far-right in South Africa and its causes then do it but the majority of black south africans are pan-africans.