accounted for 6% of all terrorism-related deaths, making it the deadliest for terrorism in Africa outside the Sahel.
The leaders depicted include some marred by corruption scandals and others who ignored presidential term limits and repressed protestors. There are also two whose militaries are: Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi.
Though Wiley said the role of some art can be to shed light on those affected by political decision-making, his goals were different.“This project is more about pulling way back and having a sort of bird’s-eye view at the phenomena of the political portrait itself,” he said.TAN TAN, Morocco (AP) — The U.S. military is backing off its usual talk of good governance and countering insurgencies’ underlying causes, instead leaning into a message that its fragile allies in
must be ready to stand more on their own., its largest joint training exercise on the continent, that shift was clear: “We need to be able to get our partners to the level of independent operations,”
said in an interview with The Associated Press.
“There needs to be some burden sharing,” Langley, the U.S. military’s top official in Africa, said on Friday, the final day of the exercise.She directed part of her remarks to the civilians of east Congo, brutalized, isolated and displaced by the fighting: “We know you are watching this moment with concern, with hope and, yes, with doubt. You are entitled to actions that measure up to the suffering you have endured.”
Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe said the two rival governments were now addressing the root causes of the hostility between them, the most important of which he said were security and the ability of refugees to return home.“Very importantly, we are discussing how to build new regional economic value chains that link our countries, including with American private sector investment,” he said.
Trump’s senior adviser for Africa, Massad Boulos, the father-in-law of Trump’s daughter Tiffany, helped broker the U.S. role in promoting security in east Congo, part of an opening that Boulos has said could involve multibillion-dollar investments.The response from Congolese civil society Friday mixed hope with skepticism.