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'New Cold War': Russia and West vie for influence in Africa

Russian, French and American leaders are crisscrossing Africa to win support for their positions on the war in Ukraine, waging what some say is the most intense competition for influence on the continent since the Cold War

The Independent UK

Why Russia is on a charm offensive in Africa. The reasons aren't pretty

Russia is the source of less than 1% of the foreign direct investment into Africa. Substantively, then, Russia brings little to the continent. But the fact that Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is making a high-profile trip to Africa in the throes of Russia’s war on Ukraine reveals how much…

The Conversation

Russia's Lavrov urges UN reforms to raise Africa's voice

Russia’s foreign minister said his country supports reforming the U.N. Security Council to give a more powerful role to developing nations, including African countries

The Independent UK

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Ugandan leader extols Africa-Russia friendship during visit by Lavrov

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said on Tuesday he saw no reason to criticise Russia over the invasion of Ukraine, extolling Russian-African friendship in remarks that will have delighted his visitor, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Reuters

Russia’s Lavrov Courts Africa in Quest for More Non-western Friends

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited Congo Republic on Monday, the second leg of an African tour aimed at strengthening Moscow's ties with a continent that has refused to join Western condemnation and sanctions over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. African countries, which have a tangled legacy of relations with…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Lavrov’s African tour another front in struggle between west and Moscow

Analysis: Foreign minister seeks to win friends and influence people in countries where closeness can be traced back to USSR

The Guardian - UK

Russia's Lavrov courts Africa in quest for more non-Western friends

Reuters

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Analysis: How Uganda’s ‘eyes and ears’ prolong Museveni presidency

A nationwide network of district commissioners loyal to the president has been crucial to his time in power since 1986.

Al Jazeera

Oil drilling to go ahead in Ugandan park despite threat to nature

Uganda’s President Museveni has endorsed the project, warning he won’t ‘allow anybody to play around’ with ‘my oil’.

Al Jazeera

Uganda's opposition figure denied bail for leading inflation protests

A Uganda veteran opposition figure and long time opponent of aging leader Yoweri Museveni was remanded to prison on Wednesday after he was charged with offences for leading protests against soaring consumer prices.

Reuters

Detained Ugandan opposition figure released after paying bail

A veteran Uganda opposition figure was released on Monday after a court slashed his cash bail that forced him to spend nearly two weeks in custody, his lawyer and an aide said.

Reuters

Uganda criminally charges leader of protests over prices

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been criminally charged by authorities who accuse him of inciting violence with his efforts to stage street protests against rising commodity prices that the government largely blames on the war in Ukraine

The Independent UK

Detained Ugandan opposition figure charged with inciting violence

A veteran Ugandan opposition figure was charged on Wednesday with inciting violence after he was arrested a day earlier addressing a protest against sky-rocketing consumer prices.

Reuters

Uganda arrests opposition's Besigye again, breaks up price protests

Ugandan security forces re-arrested a veteran opposition politician on Tuesday and broke up a protest in the capital that he was leading against soaring consumer prices.

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The Independent UK

Uganda detains opposition figure urging protests over prices

A Ugandan opposition figure who is calling for street protests against rising commodity prices is being detained inside his home by police

The Conversation

Museveni's first son Muhoozi: clear signals of a succession plan in Uganda

On 8 March 2022, Ugandan politics was sent into a spin by 49 words tweeted by President Yoweri Museveni’s only son, Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba.

Reuters

Ugandan leader's pro-Putin son touted for presidency, may face tricky ride

The soldier son of Uganda's long-serving President Yoweri Museveni is signalling his readiness to take over his father's job, with comments on global affairs from Ukraine to Ethiopia and birthday festivities akin to political rallies.

Al Jazeera

Uganda to withdraw soldiers fighting ADF in DR Congo this month

The ADF, which began as an uprising in Uganda but is based in Congo, pledged allegiance to ISIL (ISIS) in 2019.

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Radio France Internationale

Ugandan court calls on government to reverse 'unreasonable' NGO suspension

A Ugandan court has ordered the government to reconsider its decision to suspend the country's most prominent rights organisation Chapter Four. The group was forced to halt its operations during a sweeping opposition crackdown before and after last year's elections.

The Independent UK

Rise of Ugandan leader's son draws excitement and concern

Public fetes celebrating the son of Uganda's leader are raising concern that he is aiming for the presidency after years of apparently being groomed to succeed his father, President Yoweri Museveni, who has held power since 1986

Al Jazeera

Can Museveni and Kagame’s renewed bromance inspire regional peace?

Cordial relations between the presidents of Uganda and Rwanda remain crucial to the progress of East Africa.

Reuters

Explainer-Why African nations' support for UN action on Russia/Ukraine is so mixed

Western powers seeking to isolate Russia over Ukraine are disappointed at what they see as lukewarm support from African nations at the U.N. general assembly - where their 54 votes form a bloc large enough to swing resolutions.

Radio France Internationale

East African Community expands with the recent addition of DRC

The East African Community’s (EAC) membership has grown to seven with the official admission of the Democratic Republic of Congo as a new member. The other members are Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and South Sudan.

Axios

Russia rallies its powerful friends

The West has isolated Russia, but the rest of the world hasn't.

The Guardian - UK

Cold war echoes as African leaders resist criticising Putin’s war

Many remember Moscow’s support for liberation from colonial rule, and a strong anti-imperialist feeling remains

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