Category Archives: África

Uganda cuts internet hours before election

África, Eleições presidenciais, Uganda

Via: Africanews

The Ugandan government, through its communications regulator, has ordered service providers to cut internet access just hours before voting starts. In a letter to telecoms, the head of Uganda Communications Commission Irene Ssewankambo ordered service providers to ‘implement a temporary suspension of the operation of all your internet gateways and associated access points’. She said the shutdown was to take effect at 7pm local time (16:00 GMT) Wednesday (13/01) ‘and continue until otherwise directed’. Polls in the east African country open on Thursday (14/01). President Yoweri Museveni, 76, is up against 10 contenders including popstar cum politician Bobi Wine, 38.

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Sudan, Ethiopia to hold border demarcation talks week after clash

África, Cúpula, Etiópia, Sudão

Via: Aljazeera

Sudan and Ethiopia will hold negotiations next week to delineate their shared border, a statement from Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok’s office said on Sunday. The talks will be held on Tuesday, a week after Ethiopian forces reportedly ambushed and killed Sudanese troops along the border. Hamdok and his Ethiopian counterpart Abiy Ahmed on Sunday discussed the meeting of the committee for delineating the borders which will be held on December 22,” the statement said. The two leaders met on the margins of a summit under way on Sunday in Djibouti of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an East African regional bloc comprising eight countries. A cross-border attack by Ethiopian forces and rebels last Tuesday killed at least four Sudanese troops and wounded a dozen others in the Abu Tyour area in eastern Sudan’s Gadarif province.

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CAR says ex-president attempting ‘coup’ as rebels form coalition

África, Crise Política, República Centro Africana

Via: Aljazeera

Leaders of three main armed rebel groups occupying large areas of the Central African Republic announced a coalition ahead of next week’s elections, while the government accused former President Francois Bozize of an “attempted coup”. The move to form a coalition, announced on Saturday (19/20), could further increase tensions already on the rise in the troubled country ahead of presidential and legislative votes on December 27, where the opposition fears massive electoral fraud.

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