If the US relocates its drone base then it might be more than just the French they want out. They might be looking to get rid of all Western influence.

aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/2/uganda-captures-chief-of-isil-linked-militia-blamed-for-tourists-murders

Uganda says it has captured the leader of an ISIL (ISIS)-linked militia unit it blames for killing two foreign tourists and their local guide in a national park last month.

The militia chief known as “Njovu” was detained on Tuesday during a raid in which six members of his squad were killed, the government said on Thursday.

The militiamen belonged to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an ISIL-affiliated group based in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The group has allegedly killed scores of civilians this year.

Uganda’s government says the ADF is also responsible for the October 17 murder of a honeymooning couple – David Barlow from Britain and Celia Barlow from South Africa – along with their Ugandan guide Eric Ayai. The trio were killed while on a safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park near the DRC border.

ISIL claimed responsibility for the attack the day after the killings, saying it had killed “three Christian tourists” with machine guns.

Uganda had promised to track down the killers.

“This was a successful joint military-intelligence-led operation, and the whole squad that had been sent by the ADF to cause mayhem, kill tourists, burn schools, hospitals, was eliminated,” Ugandan military spokesman Deo Akiiki told the Agence France-Presse news agency on Thursday.

“The only survivor is the commander whom we captured,” he said, adding that he would be put on trial.

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Akiiki said the militia chief was found with possessions of the slain tourists and their Ugandan guide’s ID card.

Allegiance to ISIL
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has long pressed security forces to “wipe out” the ADF, which is vehemently against his administration.

The ADF began as a rebel coalition opposing the Ugandan government in the early 1990s. After being defeated by the army, it retreated into the DRC and began engaging in the illicit trade of timber, gold and farm products.

It pledged loyalty to ISIL four years ago and is considered a “terrorist organisation” by the Ugandan government.

In June, ADF fighters killed 42 people, including 37 students, at a high school in western Uganda near the DRC border, Ugandan authorities said, in what was the country’s deadliest attack in more than a decade.

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The group was also blamed for a machete attack in the eastern town of Oicha on Monday, which killed 26 people.

Uganda said it has foiled several other planned ADF attacks this year, including a plot to blow up churches in the central town of Kibibi last month.

apnews.com/article/congo-displaced-migration-conflict-88975c963b3e1c61d7635de00881f4dd

anybody up on Congo?

GOMA, Congo (AP) — A record 6.9 million people have been displaced by conflict across Congo, the United Nations migration agency said, making it one of the world’s largest displacement and humanitarian crises.

The decadeslong conflict has been the primary reason for displacement, the International Organization for Migration said Monday in a report based on data from Congo’s 26 provinces.

At least 80% of the displaced people live in eastern Congo’s provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu, Ituri and Tanganyika, which have long been overrun by dozens of armed groups seeking a share of the region’s gold and other resources. Some groups reportedly have been backed by Congo’s neighbors. Some groups are trying to protect their communities.

7 million is f***ing crazy.

tf is up with Rwanda backing some s*** to f*** with Congo,

I'm not educated on current Rwanda

(Solid clip in that tweet, I gotta watch that whole video soon)

That s*** CRAY!

IMF, World Bank and willingly selling yourself off to private companies

Triple threat for running an African country into the ground

who could’ve predicted this would happen

What's been going on Kenya recently that led to this?

i was just referencing the frequency of corruption in high level government in a lot of african countries

that being said name me a country that isn’t corrupt

Kenya and Nigeria are like the only African countries that aren't moving away from the West.

aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/1/ethiopia-signs-agreement-to-use-somalilands-red-sea-port
This is actually big news

Where the schizo somali siad bare supporter at? Dude gotta be fuming lmaooo

isn't botswana supposed to be pretty stable

But in all seriousness I hope (and suspect) somalia knew this deal was gonna happen and this doesnt actually lead to any military conflict in the future, the horn has seen enough bloodshed fr

i’m going to read that article tomorrow cause i don’t know the significance of what you just posted tbh

edit: just read a good bit of it
waiting on Somalian statement ?

I'd be surprised if HSM wouldn't know about it, but i still wonder how he's going to respond publicly

Farmaajo's stamement didn't approve of it, let's see

You know of any books or more in depth resources to learn about this stuff I only got a surface level understanding

The Divide by Jason Hickle or Confessions of an Economic Hitman

Btw for context 2 days ago HSM (Somalia) met with Muse Bihi (Somaliland), doubt that this didn’t come up @spongebob