Hints and tips:
...The junta in Burkina Faso has struck a co-operation deal with Moscow and ordered French troops back home. Yet Sudan remains the key, according to Ali Abdelrahmane Haggar, a senior adviser to Déby....
...A lot of them go into Nigeria, go into Chad, going into the horn and into the Gulf region as well....
...The military junta in Mali has expelled the French military and enlisted Wagner, a Russian mercenary group, in its fight against a jihadist insurgency....
...But surely, the junta will be removed so that it will not grow again.” ...
...Meles said, and along with the son of a former TPLF general who had also been arrested, “we were put on display for members of the federal police and army in an attempt to celebrate the capture of the junta...
...“This is an absurd move by the junta to try to legitimise their illegal power grab from Myanmar’s democratically elected government,” he said in a statement....
...from Oromia, Mr Abiy’s own, regard his vision as an attempt to restore the type of centralised authority practised by Emperor Menelik II, who reigned at the turn of the 20th century, or the Derg military junta...
...“The junta is now shielding itself within the public and the public must say to them ‘don’t get me killed’,” he added, in reference to the TPLF leaders, which Mr Abiy has called a “criminal clique”....
...“He tried to lobby people by using his international profile and mission to get support for the TPLF junta....
...Myanmar’s citizens made their anger clear within hours of the coup, banging on pots and blaring car horns. By Tuesday, a Civil Disobedience Group had set up a Facebook page....
...A federal military spokesman had earlier warned Mekelle’s 500,000 civilians: “Save yourself [and] dissociate yourself from this [TPLF] junta; after that there will be no mercy.”...
...“Extreme positions have been framed on both sides,” said Ahmed Soliman, research fellow at Chatham House and an expert on the Horn of Africa....
...Her tenure as UN High Commissioner for Refugees lasted from 1991 to 2000, and saw her take a leading role in refugee crises in Iraq, the Horn of Africa, the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Afghanistan, among...
...Myanmar is bursting back into life after decades of brutal junta rule....
...Meles was short in height, but during 21 years leading the Horn of Africa’s most populous and powerful country, he became a towering figure on the continental stage....
...The nation he had ruled over for six decades descended into civil war as a Marxist junta, the Derg, brutally suppressed the popular resistance....
...“The animals know nothing of Robert Gabriel Mugabe,” says Horn who considers high-end safaris a vital cog in Zimbabwe’s wider conservation story....
...There’s the handsome Soviet-style Tiglachin monument, the most visible relic of the communist Derg junta that succeeded Haile Selassie and ruled until 1987....
...The sharpest decline in governance was in Mauritania, a desert oil producer where a junta seized power after a coup in August....
...nature of the conflict from the days when Ken Saro-Wiwa, the late writer and Niger Delta activist, led peaceful protests against pollution and political marginalisation before being hanged by the ruling junta...
...The anti-corruption watchdog said the judiciary and the police in the country were “very corrupt” and that anti-graft measures by the junta had largely benefited the ruling elite....
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