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Do donors expect that their funds will be used to benefit anyone but a few senior officials? I suppose this means that the USA promises $1.45 billion and Muslim nations the rest.
[AFRICANEWS] Tunisia said Monday it would tighten its borders against intrusion by migrants colonists.
While meeting the interior ministers of La Belle France and Germany, president Kais Saied said Tunisia would strengthen border security to stop migrants colonists from finding passage or refugee in the country.
Saied also said a new approach to curbing irregular migration was necessary.
"Tunisia could not guard borders other than its own, and we do not accept becoming a settlement country," Saied said.
Tunisia is a key player in Europe's bid to stop migrants colonists from crossing the Mediterranean in search of safety and better lives.
Last week in Tunis, the European Commission President said the bloc would extend more than 1 billion euros in financial assistance to Tunisia.
In February, Saied has stoked anti-African sentiment in Tunisia, when he accused migrants colonists of seeking to distort the country's Arab identity.
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[AFRICANEWS] UN experts have established that the ADF rebels active in the east of the DRC and accused of Friday's attack on a high school in Uganda were receiving financial support from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) group and were seeking to expand their area of operations, according to a report consulted by AFP on Monday.
One of the many gangs scouring the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... , the ADF (Allied Democratic Forces) are among the deadliest, accused of killing thousands of civilians.
Originally Ugandan rebels, mostly Moslem, who have been present in the DRC since the 1990s, they pledged allegiance in 2019 to the ISIS, which claims responsibility for some of their actions and presents them as its "central African province" (ISCAP).
But their funding by the ISIS had not been documented until now.
In its latest report, due to be released this week, the UN panel of experts on the DRC says that the EI has "provided financial support to the ADF since at least 2019, through a complex financial system involving individuals in several countries on the continent, emanating from Somalia and passing through South Africa, Kenya and Uganda".
The experts also state that the ADF have "sent fighters and/or collaborators on reconnaissance missions in an attempt to extend their area of operations beyond the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri".
According to them, "they have sought to recruit and carry out attacks in Kinshasa" as well as in the Congolese provinces of Tshopo, Haut-Uélé (north-east) and Sud-Kivu.
Ugandan officials accuse the ADF of carrying out a raid on a Ugandan secondary school near the Congolese border on Friday night, which left at least 41 people dead.
Uganda and the DRC launched a joint offensive in 2021 to drive the ADF out of their Congolese strongholds, but have so far failed to put an end to the group's attacks.
The UN experts also devote a large part of their study to Rwanda's support for the M23 rebels in North Kivu, which they had already established in previous reports, although Kigali denies this.
They state that they have "obtained further evidence of direct interventions by the Rwandan Defense Forces (RDF) on DRC territory" and "identified several RDF commanders and officials coordinating RDF operations in the DRC".
They note that "the security and humanitarian situation in the provinces of Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu has continued to deteriorate".
[AFRICANEWS] With six months to go before the elections, the campaign is shaping up to be very tense in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... , with the opposition raging against a regime determined to stay in power, against a backdrop of conflict in the east and social crisis.
A single-round presidential election is scheduled for 20 December in this vast country of some 100 million inhabitants, along with elections for national and provincial deputies and local councilors. Félix Tshisekedi, President since January 2019, is running for a second five-year term.
Having experienced this at the time of the previous elections, which were postponed for two years, some Congolese still have doubts about the organization of the vote in time and are expecting what they call a "landslide".
But the authorities insist that the elections will indeed take place "within the constitutional timeframe" and, above all, the National Electoral Commission (CENI) has so far kept to its timetable.
It has "enrolled" (registered) voters and issued them with cards. This has enabled it to redo the electoral register, which was cleaned up by an "external audit" and served as the basis for the law on the "distribution of seats", which was promptly passed by Parliament and promulgated on 15 June.
Technically, "the CENI has demonstrated that it can meet the deadlines... A shift is less and less likely", notes Trésor Kibangula, political analyst at the Ebuteli research institute.
Confidence and transparency are a different story.
At the end of last year, Ebuteli expressed concern that the electoral process was "badly underway", with the risk of "violent mostly peaceful demonstrations". At issue: the highly controversial composition of the CENI itself and the Constitutional Court, the last electoral lock.
"In fact, at the legal level, the government has all the levers", says another observer of Congolese politics, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... .
For several weeks now, the groups of four opponents who are declared presidential candidates have been organising demonstrations to demand an overhaul of these bodies, which they believe will lead to fraud and chaos.
These opponents, Martin Fayulu, Moïse Katumbi, Matata Ponyo and Delly Sesanga, also consider that the electoral register is "fanciful", because "enrolment" could not take place in territories plagued by armed violence and because the "audit" was carried out in a record time of five days.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Leader of the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i Revolution, Sayyid Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din al-Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... , denounced on Monday the US administration’s approach to spreading corruption and immorality and its attempt to generalize that to humanity.
During his lecture today, Sayyid Abdul-Malik al-Houthi pointed out that the Jewish-Zionist lobby, along with the infidel West, is moving with all its capabilities and in every field to corrupt the human soul in order to facilitate the control and enslavement of people.
"America carried the banner of corruption and the banner of vice in a scandalous, ugly, and shameful manner," Sayyid Abdul-Malik said, noting that the American president, Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. S I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.... , appeared while promoting homosexuality, trying to generalize it, providing it with political and legal support, and trying to impose it in other countries.
The Revolution Leader affirmed that spreading vice and destroying morals and values is one of the worst forms of targeting a person to empty him of his faith instinct and keep him away from Allah’s teachings that reform and protect man.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Aidarous al-Zubaidi, president of the pro-UAE Southern Transitional Council (STC) in southern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , suspended on Monday his attendance at meetings of the "Presidential Leadership Council", of which he is a member.
A prominent journalist in the Council, Muhammad al-Noud, reported that al-Zubaidi refused a Saudi invitation to participate in a new meeting of the Presidential Council to be arranged in Riyadh.
The reasons for al-Zubaidi’s boycott of the council’s meetings and its duration were not clarified, but its timing indicates that it is an attempt by al-Zubaidi to press for new gains, especially since it comes a day after a video meeting he held with the STC’s presidium.
It is noteworthy that al-Zubaidi has been placed under house arrest in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... since he was summoned against the backdrop of his escalation in Hadhramaut province, eastern Yemen, months ago.
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[GEO.TV] Expanding the scope of its investigation into the Greece shipwreck incident, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Monday formed teams in major cities, including Lahore, Gujranwala, Rawalpindi and Islamabad to bring the human traffickers to justice, it emerged on Monday.
The decision was made during a meeting held with FIA Director General Mohsin Hassan Butt at the agency's headquarters in Islamabad today, according to a statement issued by the FIA.
Authorities in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... still have no clear idea how many people were aboard the boat when it sank — estimates range from 400 to over 700 — but likely hundreds came from Pakistain, and many from Azad Jammu Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... . As per the foreign media reports, 80 people have died and hundreds were still missing.
The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Human Rights office said in a statement on Sunday that at least 500 people were still missing and that dozens of people were known to have perished. A good number of women and kiddies were among the missing persons in the "horrific tragedy". The ferry boat was carrying up to 750 people that went down 50 nautical miles off Pylos in southern Greece, it further said.
Chairing the meeting, the FIA DG directed to complete the investigations against the human traffickers in connection with the Greece shipwreck at the earliest.
"To prevent such incidents in the future, a meeting of the FIA’s inter-agency task force has also been called tomorrow in which an effective strategy will be chalked out," read the statement.
Terming the human traffickers and their controllers "international culprits", the FIA DG directed to take action against the content relating to crossing the border illegally on the social media.
The meeting was told the 83 residents of Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... were still missing in the tragic incident.
In addition to this, three inquiries and six FIRs have been lodged against more than 20 human traffickers so for, read the statement. Meanwhile five human smugglers have also been arrested from Gujrat, Gujranwala and Lahore, it added.
"Elements involved in heinous crimes like human trafficking deserve no leniency," asserted the DG.
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Just sit right back
And you'll hear a tale
A tale of a fateful trip,
That started from this tropic port,
Aboard this tiny ship.
The mate was a mighty sailin' lad,
The Skipper brave and sure, Five 750 passengers set sail that day,
For a three hour tour,
A three hour tour.
An #AANES official stressed the issues of #ISIS’ presence and detainees must be addressed through a judicial process, calling for the international community to collaborate and come up with new strategies to eliminate this "terrorist organization”.https://t.co/18N3y8BVnI
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) June 19, 2023
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
...46th president of the U.S. S 
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
