Pope Francis' and General Paul Kagame's cartoon in Ugandan New Vision, Dec 20, 2016

On Wednesday, December 21, 2016, the state-owned Ugandan daily New Vision  retracted and apologized for a cartoon about the 1994 Rwandan inter-ethnic massacres, after a forceful media and diplomatic attack from Rwandan officials working in the office of the  Rwandan dictator General Paul Kagame.

Pro-EU artists' mural of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, in Bristol

Theresa May, the UK new prime minister has appointed Boris Johnson as UK Foreign Affairs Minister. Like US presidential candidate Donald Trump, Boris Johnson was born in New York City. They have matching hairdos and are very bombastic. They also both supported the UK exit from the European Union, or Brexit. Maybe, that is why people around the world tend to compare both Donald Trump and Boris Johnson. Actually Boris Johnson himself has admitted being often mistaken for Trump, while traveling to New York:

Bernie Sanders and wife Jane with media in Rome

"I'm so excited and proud to be here with other people who are trying to create a moral economy,"  US Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said upon his arrival in Rome. He left New York  immediately after a heated debate with his rival Hillary Clinton. He is at the Vatican to attend a conference on social, economic and environmental issues at Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.

The visit comes just four days before a crucial state primary contest in New York, where 291 delegates are at stake. Before leaving, on Thursday night, the

Martin Kobler, MONUSCO

Despised by the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, challenged by United Nations Security Council members, the United Nations Secretary General Special Representative in the DRC, Martin Kobler,  has finally been relieved of his post as the Head of MONUSCO. His term will end in October 2015 and will not be renewed. MONUSCO is the UN peacekeeping mission in DRC.

All, if not most of Martin Kobler's woos started in Summer 2014, after the Intervention Forces Brigade, known as FIB, composed of troops

DRC President Felix Tshisekedi and China President Xi Jinping, May 25, 2023

On May 25, 2023 Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi visited China and (China), and exchanged with the Congolese community living in China. During his visit that was officially about the economic cooperation between DRC and China, Felix Tshisekedi evoked the invasion of DRC by Rwandan troops under the cover of M23 rebels, the collaboration between the EAC force and the M23 rebels, and the potential open wars with Rwanda. After the visit, many questions were raised regarding the peace in the Great Region of Africa and the role of the super powers in the conflict between DRC and Rwanda.?

Paul Kagame, Louise Mishikiwabo receiving a delegation from the United Arab Emirates in Kigali in June 2015

The Rwandan Government is considering sending demobilized Rwandan Defenses Forces (RDF) soldiers and surrendered former Rwandan rebels to prop troops fighting in Yemen up, sources in Kigali tell AfroAmerica Network. According to the sources, the agreement is still under discussion between Rwandan officials and  negotiators from the coalition in the Middle East fighting