The protests in Sudan have entered their sixth week. Instead of fading into oblivion under the weight of President Al-Bashir’s iron-fisted response, they have gathered momentum, evolving into a countrywide social change movement. The protests began in several cities on the outskirts of Khartoum in response to the elimination of a bread subsidy, that caused the…
Things were not looking good for the future of democracy in Congo yesterday, after African Heads of State convened at a summit in Addis Ababa to discuss the DRC’s contentious elections. While, at first, African leaders seemed unwilling to stand up to Congolese President Joseph Kabila and to question the duplicitous tactics of the Electoral…
Sudan has been roiled by protests and concomitant violence since mid-December. What began as popular disapproval over steep hikes in bread prices, which tripled overnight due to a government cut of a vital bread subsidy, has now metamorphosed into growing anti-government rallies demanding President Omar al-Bashir’s resignation. The protests have spread to engulf towns and…
At around 3 a.m., Jan. 10, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, following numerous delays, Congo’s electoral commission finally declared Felix Tshisekedi the victor in the country’s contentious presidential election. While the declaration of a winner who is not Joseph Kabila – the dictatorial kleptocrat who has been president for the past 18 years…
The Congolese people are bracing for the results of the recent presidential election. Following a two-year delay in holding the highly anticipated election to unseat President Joseph Kabila, the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) finally got the chance to go to the polls on Dec 30. The lead up was not…
The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) much-anticipated presidential and parliamentary elections took place on Sunday, December 30th. In the past week alone, the elections were postponed by the electoral commission (CENI) from the 23rd to the 30th, and nearly 1.2 million people were excluded from the vote, allegedly due to public safety and security…
In the lead up to Sunday’s (re-)scheduled elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), every day brings word of some new large-scale human rights violation or atrocity rattling the conflict-beleaguered nation. Elections have been postponed and a large swath of the Congolese population has been blocked from casting their votes. The electoral commission…
Sattar, his mother and eight of his siblings fled their homes in Myanmar after uniformed troops attacked their village. Many of their neighbors were killed and they still do not know the whereabouts of their father. They spent several days hiding in the jungle and eventually escaped into Bangladesh. They were provided temporary shelter, but it…
Following months of deadly battles, the warring parties in Yemen agreed on Dec. 13 to a CEASEFIRE in Hodeidah, the flashpoint port city, which is Yemen’s main link to the outside world. This is an enormous breakthrough in what the UN calls the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis,” with rampant war crimes and crimes against humanity…
In a historic bipartisan rebuke to the Trump Administration, U.S. Senators passed a bipartisan resolution today to END U.S. SUPPORT for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen! Senators also assigned responsibility for the slaying of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the erratic de facto…