US intelligence told to keep quiet over role in Ukraine military triumphs

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https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/32de631b42bc9cb2431a7f15f08570ee00bc7d0d/86_0_3860_2318/master/3860.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=027ec74b3d589e8f420d4e8183346967 US intel­li­gence told to keep qui­et over role in Ukraine mil­i­tary tri­umphs CIA vet­er­ans advise suc­ces­sors against ‘unwise’ intel­li­gence boasts that could trig­ger esca­la­tion from Rus­sia Rus­sia-Ukraine war: lat­est updates For­mer US intel­li­gence offi­cers are advis­ing their suc­ces­sors cur­rent­ly in office to shut up and stop boast­ing about their role in Ukraine’s mil­i­tary successes.…

In Senegal’s Former Capital, a Colonial Statue in Hiding Is No Longer Welcome

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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/04/14/world/00senegal-statue-promo/00senegal-statue-1-moth.jpg The city of Saint-Louis was shaped by Louis Faid­herbe, a French gov­er­nor who also led bru­tal mil­i­tary cam­paigns in West Africa. What to do with his lega­cy has divid­ed Sene­gal. SAINT-LOUIS, Sene­gal — For more than a cen­tu­ry, the French gen­er­al who shaped Senegal’s for­mer cap­i­tal was hailed as a hero and a father…

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Tunisians Fight to Save Democracy

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PAVIA, ITALY (AFRICA NEWS MATTERS)  Democ­ra­cy has tak­en a hit in the African nation of Tunisia, once again. This comes 10 years since the Jas­mine Rev­o­lu­tion.  Tunisi­a’s Pres­i­dent Kais Saied con­tin­ues to adopt mea­sures that con­tra­dict his con­sti­tu­tion­al duties. Fol­low­ing elec­tions in 2019, the num­ber of inter­nal divi­sions with­in the par­lia­ment began to grow. Recently…

Mwai Kibaki, Former President of Kenya, Dies at 90

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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/04/23/world/23kibaki-obit1/22kibaki-moth.jpg He came to pow­er promis­ing to root out cor­rup­tion and improve gov­ern­ment trans­paren­cy. But his tenure was blight­ed by wide­spread graft and a vio­lent upheaval. NAIROBI, Kenya — Mwai Kiba­ki, who helped trans­form Kenya’s econ­o­my and ush­er in a new Con­sti­tu­tion as its third pres­i­dent, but whose tenure was marred by high-pro­­file cor­rup­tion cases…

Rwanda asylum seeker policy: Ex-PM Theresa May criticises government plan — BBC.com

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For­mer prime min­is­ter There­sa May has crit­i­cised the gov­ern­men­t’s plan to send some asy­lum seek­ers to Rwan­da.  Mrs May told the Com­mons she did not sup­port the pol­i­cy due to her con­cerns over whether it met stan­dards on “legal­i­ty, prac­ti­cal­i­ty and effi­ca­cy”.  Home Sec­re­tary Pri­ti Patel said the scheme would be “a major blow to…

Why the World Isn’t Really United Against Russia

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https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/league-of-nations-geneva-GettyImages-1181884806.jpg As Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin’s army reduced one Ukrain­ian city after anoth­er to rub­ble, crush­ing civil­ians caught in apart­ment blocks and shop­ping malls under a rain of artillery and mis­sile fire, many observers in the rich world bemoaned the dys­func­tion of the Unit­ed Nations for not being able to over­come an obsta­cle writ­ten into…

A Door-to-Door Effort to Find Out Who Died Helps Low-Income Countries Aid the Living

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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/04/19/science/00sci-sierra-leone-death1/merlin_203167641_4b85b769-4743–4029–9a6d-4ded6abc9af1-moth.jpg Many devel­op­ing coun­tries don’t keep offi­cial death records. A nov­el effort uses “elec­tron­ic autop­sies” to count deaths, and record their cause. FUNKOYA, Sier­ra Leone — Augus­tine Alpha begins gen­tly. “Who lives in this home?” he asks the young man, who has come in from the fields to answer his ques­tions. Your name? Age? Reli­gion? Marital…

After Cameroonians in the US Get TPS, A look Beyond the News

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DENVER, USA — (AFRICA NEWS MATTERS) News that an esti­mat­ed 40,000 Cameroo­ni­ans liv­ing in the Unit­ed States may qual­i­fy for Tem­po­rary Pro­tect­ed Sta­tus or TPS rock­et­ed to the top of the charts in the past week.  There are sev­er­al key dimen­sions to this sto­ry — not just the fact that the Cameroon­ian ben­e­fi­cia­ries who are fleeing…

Russia Flounders in Ukraine but Doubles Down in Mali

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https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Mali-Russia-Vladimir-Putin-France-Withdrawal-GettyImages-1238621287.jpg A man sits near a por­trait of Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin dur­ing a demon­stra­tion in Bamako, Mali, on Feb. 19, cel­e­brat­ing France’s announce­ment that it will with­draw its troops from the coun­try. FLORENT VERGNES/AFP via Get­ty Images On March 30, as Russ­ian forces con­tin­ued their strug­gle to con­quer Ukrain­ian cities, Russ­ian arms sup­pli­ers delivered…

The Dangers of China’s Decline

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https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/china-decline-deena-so-oteh-illustration.jpg Decline is a tricky con­cept. The term makes us think of a coun­try that is falling like a rock—one whose pow­er and capa­bil­i­ties are drop­ping across the board. But a coun­try can be in rel­a­tive decline vis-à-vis a fast-grow­ing adver­sary even if its own pow­er is still increas­ing. It can be surg­ing for­ward in…