04 May 2022
“War’s weapons are made when there is peace”
BBC Africa Live 04 May 2022. 4:37 Our proverb of the day. A Kikuyu proverb sent by David Maina in Nyandarua, Kenya.
Guinea: 27 former senior officials, amongst them ex-President Alpha Condé, are alleged to have committed crimes like murder (e.g. Alpha Condé), illegal detentions, abductions, torture, rape and kidnapping. The alleged crimes seem to have been committed during “the final months of Mr Condé's time in office when the security forces were used to crush opposition to his third term” and “(d)ozens of people were shot dead”.
BBC Africa Live 04 May 2022. 17:40
Kenya: Thousands of security forces have been deployed to Marsabit county in the country’s north and an overnight curfew has been introduced after a significant increase in cattle-rustling and ethnic violence being fuelled by arms being easily available from Southern Ethiopia.
BBC Africa Live 04 May 2022. 9:29
03 May 2022
Ethiopia: 76 have been arrested, accused of having instigated violence yesterday Monday against Muslims celebrating Eid in Addis Ababa.
BBC Africa Live 03 May 2022. 7:16
Mali/France: Bamako is “breaking off all defence agreements” with France, noting a “profound deterioration of the military co-operation with France for some time now” as well as “multiple violations of its sovereignty by French troops in the country”. Bamako says that it has notified Paris yesterday Monday afternoon.
BBC Africa Live 03 May 2022. 5:06
Climate change: Of the many forest restoration and planting programmes that have been launched in recent years to combat global warming, many have not delivered. For example, of the 100 million hectares of forests, grasslands, wetlands and vegetation to be restored by 2030 across Africa’s Sahel region by the Great Green Wall project launched in 2009, only 20 million hectares have been achieved. In Mozambique, where private companies have been allowed to plant large monoculture plantations as contribution to the forest landscape restoration initiative, there are indications that some companies have felled mature natural forests to replace them by plantations where the original forests are much better carbon sinks than the plantations. FAO is now launching a project to measure and report progress in forest restoration and planting meaningfully and transparently.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61300708
Somalia: Al-Shabab claims it has killed 170 AU soldiers when it took control of a AU base 100 km north-east of the capital Mogadishu.
BBC Africa Live 03 May 2022. 14:54