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A 45-year-old travel agent has done what the U.N. hasn't: brokered peace between rivals in Sudan’s brutal civil war. Nicholas Bariyo goes inside a shabby office building in Kampala where peace reigns. wsj.com/world/africa/t…

The Sudanese Travel Agent Who Brokered Peace Between Rivals in a Brutal Civil War, my latest on page one of Today's The Wall Street Journal

We demand the immediate release of Abubaker Lubowa, Raymond Tamale, Denis Kabugo and Hakim Wampamba following their detention by #Uganda|n security forces today. Journalists must be allowed to do our jobs reporting electoral news #JournalismIsNotACrime #KawempeNorthByElection

Excruciating! Stench Of Death As Sudan Army, Paramilitaries Battle For Capital. Millions live among abandoned buildings, wrecked vehicles and hidden mass graves. barrons.com/news/stench-of… via @BarronsOnline

Congo’s leader has offered a secret deal to the U.S. president: Help defeat a powerful rebel force in exchange for access to a trove of minerals wsj.com/world/africa/w… via The Wall Street Journal benoit faucon Nicholas Bariyo Alex Ward

U.S. president’s ally Erik Prince in talks to help embattled Congolese government with mining tax collection wsj.com/world/africa/w… via The Wall Street Journal benoit faucon Nicholas Bariyo Alex Ward

The Sudanese military seized back control of the presidential palace in Khartoum, marking a major turning point in the two-year conflict. "This is a major tactical and strategic defeat for the RSF and its backers,” wsj.com/world/africa/s… via The Wall Street Journal

Iyad ag Ghali leads one of the world’s most deadly al Qaeda franchises. His militants have become so powerful that there is a risk that Mali, or neighboring Burkina Faso could become the world’s first nation ruled by al Qaeda. wsj.com/world/africa/i… via The Wall Street Journal

“It’s hitting us on all fronts,” said Caleb Ragland, president of the American Soybean Association and a soy farmer in Magnolia, Ky. “You’re talking about the potential of a flat-out crisis in rural America and the farm economy.” wsj.com/politics/polic… via The Wall Street Journal

A standoff between South Sudan’s president and his deputy is threatening to tip the world’s youngest nation into a fresh round of ethnic killing,“I can’t afford to run away again,”our latest wsj.com/world/africa/w… via The Wall Street Journal

Mineral riches are turning the Democratic Republic of Congo—already a region plagued by militia violence—into a battleground The Wall Street Journal Nicholas Bariyo wsj.com/world/africa/w…

From Nicholas Bariyo The Wall Street Journal on scramble for #congo minerals: #Uganda and #Rwanda don’t produce much gold or coltan. 2023, Uganda exported $3.4B in gold and Rwanda earned $1.1B from minerals(43%+). Until global markets demand accountability, this is the norm. wsj.com/world/africa/w…

Fears are growing that a rebel militia is using violence to consolidate control in the Darfur region of Sudan--“I don’t know where my husband is,” our lts wsj.com/world/africa/a… via The Wall Street Journal

The people of Gaza—the one in Mozambique—are especially befuddled over why the apocryphal prophylactics were singled out as evidence of the allegedly wasteful spending Trump says is determined to eliminate wsj.com/world/africa/g… via The Wall Street Journal

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Astonishing! Francis X. Rocca After the Vatican permitted priests to bless same-sex couples in December 2023, the African bishops swiftly protested. Remarkably, the pope backed down and agreed that the permission would not apply on their continent.

Ever since Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Ltd took over from Umeme Limited it has looked like the days of UEB! loadshedding is a daily constant, in less than a month, how will things look like in a year?

The auditor noticed $500,000 was missing—then some of it was found in a shopping bag. The bizarre state of the Vatican’s broken finances. “He has to give the money back,” Francis told the auditor.wsj.com/world/europe/v… via The Wall Street Journal

Relative wealth and generations of history in South Africa are dissuading many Afrikaners from claiming Trump’s offer to come to the U.S. as refugees rpts Alexandra Wexler Snow wsj.com/world/africa/t… via The Wall Street Journal

How Rwanda-backed rebels have imposed their new authority harshly after taking over a Congo city -“They now know my address—I have nowhere to hide," wsj.com/world/africa/r… via The Wall Street Journal