Africa, Uganda
Sassou and Museveni set up African Global Security foundation to boost intelligence cooperation

Uganda
Attacks leave Ugandan army with its back to the wall

The cracks in President Museveni's security strategy are increasingly apparent as disappointment grows and international cooperation diminishes. After a brutal attack by Al-Shabaab in May, a massacre near the DRC border in June has thrown the army's inability to fend off threats into sharp relief.

Togo
Lomé set to ratify Medicrime Convention

After signing the Medicrime Convention in late January, Togo plans to ratify it within six months. The government will soon prepare a bill to transpose the guidelines of the international treaty into Togolese law.

Uganda
Museveni asks Paris for help in protecting TotalEnergies

The Ugandan president hopes that his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron will involve himself more in economic relations between the two countries, and in particular in the activities of TotalEnergies in Uganda.

The New Guard
DR Congo, Uganda, South Africa and Ghana

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence reveals the next generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

DRC Dieudonne Tshibangu, Tshisekedi's PR

Uganda Daniel Obal, Museveni's poster boy

South Africa Siviwe Gwarube, new DA chief whip

Ghana Stephen Yeboah, a toolmaker for sustainable artisanal mining

Africa, Tunisia
UReputation boss Lotfi Bel Hadj launches all-out legal attack on Facebook

After filing a complaint in November 2020 against Facebook in France, the Franco-Tunisian businessman who's the head of the Ureputation group has just launched a legal battle against the Californian giant in Tunisia.

DRC, Uganda
Museveni schmoozes Tshisekedi to avoid paying $325m war damages

The International Court of Justice ruling that Uganda must pay hefty war damages to the DRC comes as relations between the two countries are on the mend. Kampala is on a charm offensive towards its neighbour in the hope of an amicable settlement.

Congo
Sassou organises anti-coup seminar in Oyo

There were initially supposed to be five heads of state invited to Oyo, the birthplace of Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso, on the evening of 11 February.

Spotlight | Great lakes
Belligerence of Kampala and Kigali backfires

The tensions between Yoweri Museveni and his Rwandan opposite number Paul Kagame are assuming worrying dimensions and threatening to destabilise the whole of the Great Lakes region. Investigations by the Indian Ocean Newsletter have revealed the extent to which paranoia [.