Sudanese Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour, headed for the United Nations General Assembly in New York, has made a stop in Washington D.C. first to discuss U.S. sanctions imposed on Khartoum. Ghandour met with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan last week, as well as Mark Green, the head of…
Members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council, meeting in an emergency session on Monday, expressed alarm over North Korea’s nuclear bomb test at the weekend. The security council members, including representatives of Egypt, Senegal and Ethiopia, condemned the test and explored options for dealing with Pyongyang that include new…
Two Namibian firms doing business with North Korea have fallen under new sanctions imposed by Japan, as tensions with Pyongyang have escalated in recent months. Those tensions reached new heights on Tuesday after North Korea launched a missile that flew over Japanese territory at Hokkaido, landing in the Pacific Ocean…
The United Nations Security Council should apply sanctions to nine leaders in South Sudan, including President Salva Kiir and exiled rebel leader Riek Machar, the Human Rights Watch organization argued in a new report on conflict-related atrocities released Tuesday. “Salva Kiir, former Vice President Riek Machar, former army chief of…
Amid threats over new sanctions and the strife over stalled presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo – elections that President Joseph Kabila’s regime says the country can’t afford – comes a curious report on two close Kabila associates and their yacht. Leading French outlet Le Monde published on Tuesday…
Laureen is the editor of Africa Times
The European Union formally listed on Monday nine current and former officials of the Democratic Republic of Congo whose role in human rights violations has led to EU sanctions against them. Their names were added “in view of the gravity of the situation in DRC,” and join the list of…
Eritrea says that Foreign Minister Osman Saleh’s visit to China has yielded a promise to again plead its case on Western sanctions, the government said Thursday. Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi “reaffirmed that his country will raise the issue of sanctions imposed on Eritrea” in the United Nations, the Eritrean…
A global human rights organization is calling on the United Nations Human Rights Council to begin an inquiry into violations in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is an epicenter of the violence and political crisis that also has afflicted North Kivu, Kinshasa and other regions….
Sudan is looking to United States President-elect Donald Trump to advance cooperation between the two nations when he takes office, and to reconsider the economic sanctions that Washington has kept in force. Sudanese Foreign Minister Kamal Ismail said that his country has expressed “a practical desire to cooperate” with the U.S….
It’s just 10 days before the deadline marking the end of President Joseph Kabila’s constitutionally limited second term, and the DR Congo leader has given no indication of a plan to step down. The situation has led to intensifying repression of the political opposition, journalists and activists, and now a…
Diplomats and human rights advocates testified before U.S. Congress members on Tuesday during a hearing on the Democratic Republic of Congo. The hearing focused on containing the crisis as President Joseph Kabila refuses to step down from his constitutionally determined term on December 19. Two U.S. government officials and four…
South Sudanese opposition leader Riek Machar, head of the SPLM-IO, was forbidden from entering Ethiopia and returned to South Africa, a spokesman for the rebel group told the Sudan Tribune. Machar was traveling to the SPLM-IO headquarters in Pagak, near the Ethiopian border, when he was stopped at Bole International…
Six commanders have been banned from global travel and had their assets frozen due to their part in the increasingly worsening conflict on Thursday July 2, 2015. Three of the generals are from rebel forces; Major General Simon Gatwech, Major General James Koang Chuol, and General Peter Gadet and the…