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Today, the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa will hold a hearing on the crisis in Sudan, with Cameron Hudson, Kholood Khair, and Ken Isaacs of Samaritan's Purse testifying. Watch it here at 10:30 EDT: gop-foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/a-dire…

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Other issues straining US-South Africa relations seem to have gotten lost in the White House's focus on White farmers in South Africa.

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Speech by #Sudan's UN Ambassador Al-Harith Idris at the closed-door UN Security Council meeting on May 19, excerpts: ➡️“Sudanese intelligence was able to monitor the presence of Emirati experts at Amdjarass  and Abéché airports.” almohagig.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D…

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"We call on the federal government to *continue* seeking peaceful resolutions *without violence*" is quite different from calling on Ethiopia's government to stop using drone strikes against its own people. Unclear that either message will effect a change in behavior.

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Uganda military accuses GermanForeignOffice of supporting a rebel group in Uganda. The army alleges that the suspected rebel group has elements from the National Unity Platform. Every election cycle, government claims the emerge of a rebel group. updf.go.ug/press-release/…

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The United States is deeply concerned by reports of the mistreatment in Tanzania of two East African activists – Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire and Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi. Atuhaire was recognized by Department of State in 2024 as an International Women of Courage Awardee. We

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Civilians escaping government airstrikes and land offensives in South Sudan are taking refuge in makeshift shelters along rivers and crossing into camps in Ethiopia, as analysts warn that a long flawed peace deal has now totally collapsed. Read: ⬇️ buff.ly/6szgGj1

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#Djibouti’s President accuses #UAE of using African investments as military cover President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh of Djibouti has issued a sharp rebuke of the United Arab Emirates, accusing the Gulf state of leveraging its multibillion-dollar investments in Africa as a veil for

#Djibouti’s President accuses #UAE of using African investments as military cover

President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh of Djibouti has issued a sharp rebuke of the United Arab Emirates, accusing the Gulf state of leveraging its multibillion-dollar investments in Africa as a veil for
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Ugandan🇺🇬 national, Agather Atuhaire tells AFP News Agency that she was stripped naked, beaten until she could no longer walk, sexually assaulted and her body smeared in excrement by #Tanzanian🇹🇿 authorities. “What happened in Tanzania stays in Tanzania,” she says she was told. “We have videos of

Ugandan🇺🇬 national, <a href="/AAgather/">Agather Atuhaire</a> tells <a href="/AFP/">AFP News Agency</a> that she was stripped naked, beaten until she could no longer walk, sexually assaulted and her body smeared in excrement by #Tanzanian🇹🇿 authorities.

“What happened in Tanzania stays in Tanzania,” she says she was told. “We have videos of