Africa News and Discussions

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Uganda’s military deployed in national capital before presidential election

https://apnews.com/article/uganda-elect ... f83bb98143

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Benin votes in key parliamentary, local polls a month after thwarted coup

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/1 ... arted-coup

venezuela here we go again

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Uganda’s autocratic political system is failing its people – and threatens the region

https://theconversation.com/ugandas-aut ... ion-273404

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Opposition supporters killed in overnight clashes as Uganda president takes election lead

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78vzye1l2no

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bro has won again -_-

https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20260117-y ... l-survivor

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Benin votes in key parliamentary, local polls a month after thwarted coup

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/1 ... arted-coup

venezuela here we go again

Parties loyal to President Talon won all the seats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Beni ... y_election

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South Sudan Opposition Party Lays Down New Demands Over Peace Talks
By Sheila Ponnie
February 12, 2026

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(Amjambo Africa) South Sudan’s main opposition party says it will not take part in any further peace talks unless Dr. Riek Machar, the country’s First Vice President who is facing charges including genocide and crimes against humanity, is released from detention.

In a February 10 letter to President William Ruto, the SPLM-IO said the talks cannot proceed without Machar at the table. Ruto is the chief mediator in the latest peace talks between the South Sudan government and the main opposition group, dubbed the “Tumaini Initiative.”

“For SPLM-IO to participate in the Tumaini Initiative, where SPLM-IG (Kiir’s party) is also a participant… we demand the unconditional release of Dr. Riek Machar, and he must be delivered to the venue of the peace talks in Nairobi,” read the letter signed by Nathaniel Oyet, SPLM-IO Acting Chairman.

Machar was placed under house arrest in March 2025. President Salva Kiir’s government accused him of murder after a militia group, predominantly from the ethnic Nuer community, overran an army garrison in February that year, killing more than 250 soldiers and a top army commander.

Machar is the leader and Commander-in-Chief of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement–in Opposition (SPLM-IO). He is also a member of the Nuer ethnic group. South Sudan’s conflict has largely followed ethnic lines, pitting forces loyal to President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, against those aligned with Machar, a Nuer. The Dinka community dominates the government and key public institutions, while the Nuer constitute South Sudan’s second-largest ethnic group.

Read more here: https://www.amjamboafrica.com/south-su ... ce-talks/

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African Union Moves to Revive Sudanese Dialogue Following Summit
February 15 , 2026

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(Sudan Tribune) (ADDIS ABABA) – An African Union official told Sudan Tribune on Sunday that preparations are underway to resume dialogue between Sudanese political forces and address the escalating humanitarian crisis.

The African Union (AU) and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) had indefinitely postponed Sudanese-Sudanese consultations originally scheduled for December in Djibouti. That delay was driven by deep divisions over participant selection and the overall methodology for the talks.

Speaking on the sidelines of the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, the official confirmed that arrangements are being finalized for a new round of dialogue. He noted that formal contacts with political groups would intensify following the conclusion of the ordinary summit of the 39 heads of state and government.

While the official hinted at “significant developments” within the file, he declined to provide specific details. “Following the conclusion of this summit, we are conducting intensive communications with political forces to resume the Sudanese-Sudanese dialogue,” he said.

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South Africa summons new US ambassador over criticism as rift deepens

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Benin finance minister expected to coast to presidential election win

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/be ... 026-04-12/

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Inside War-hit Sudan’s Only Functioning Hospital Curing Tropical Diseases
By Mohamed Mirghani and Mariem Bah
April 20, 2026

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(Al Jazeera) Khartoum, Sudan – Omar Othman, a gold miner in northern Sudan’s Abu Hamad town, had hoped for a fresh start to life in the capital – only for those hopes to be cut short by illness.

For months, he had worked deep in the gold mines under harsh conditions, which badly affected his health. At first, the symptoms seemed minor: a cough that lingered for weeks went largely unnoticed.

But after arriving in Khartoum, it developed into a sharp chest pain that forced him to seek medical attention. He was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis, one of several infectious diseases spreading in Sudan, where a three-year war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has collapsed the African country’s health system.

At the Tropical Diseases Teaching Hospital in Omdurman, Sudan’s second largest city west of Khartoum, laboratory tests confirmed the diagnosis.
Othman told Al Jazeera that although the result left him anxious, counselling sessions and a clear explanation of the treatment plan helped ease his fears and allowed him to come to terms with his condition.

Read more here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/ ... diseases

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We Shall Not Host Our Executioners
By Vijay Prashad
May 29, 2026

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(Popular Resistance.org) On 11–12 May, at the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, French President Emmanuel Macron stood in front of more than thirty African heads of state and announced, ‘We are the true Pan-Africanists’. This was an extraordinarily obnoxious comment that was sandwiched between bureaucratic banalities about ‘growth’, ‘innovation’, and ‘partnerships’.

In an open letter, Togolese writer Farida Bemba Nabourema responded that ‘Pan-Africanism is, at its most fundamental, the political philosophy that said no to everything France spent three centuries saying yes to: slavery, colonialism, and neocolonialism’. This philosophy, ‘born in the holds of the slave ships, in the plantation fields of Saint-Domingue’ by people who ‘believe that African and African-descended people deserved to govern themselves’, Nabourema wrote, cannot be laundered by Macron’s charm offensive.

This was the 29th France-Africa summit (rebranded for Nairobi as the Africa Forward Summit), yet the first to take place in a non-Francophone African country. Though the French insist that a new era has arrived, one supposedly beyond the old paternalism of Françafrique, holding the summit in Kenya was not an innocent geographical change. It reflects the profound crisis of French power in West Africa and the Sahel.

In Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, where I am writing this newsletter, the general mood is for sovereignty and against French neocolonialism. Popular uprisings and military ruptures in parts of the Sahel (Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger) dismantled long-standing French military arrangements and rejected the political architecture through which Paris maintained its dominance. The new governments expelled French troops and terminated defence agreements while the force of popular anger destroyed the ideological legitimacy of French tutelage. These governments have consolidated their unity against neocolonialism through the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). None of the Sahel leaders attended the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi.

France has pivoted eastwards to Anglophone Africa because it has been unable to restore its authority in the Sahel, even through the use of military threats via Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States. It has now sought to rebrand itself as a partner of African sovereignty rather than as a custodian of neocolonialism.

Read more here: https://popularresistance.org/we-shall ... utioers/