Israel’s strike on Iran’s notorious Evin Prison turned out to be among the deadliest of the brief war and prisoners have been transferred to face worse conditions elsewhere via @WSJ.

Trump administration officials seeking deals for critical minerals in Africa are in for a surprise: our latest via @WSJ.

Horror! Blair and Brooke’s bodies were found and identified about a dozen miles from the cabin. Their grandparents remain unaccounted for as of Sunday afternoon. via @WSJ.

U.S. funding for anti-HIV initiatives in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been cut. Humanitarian officials fear infections will surge.

Trump: “Rwanda and the Congo, I’m a little out of my league with that one, because I didn’t know too much about it, I knew one thing, they were going at it for many years with machetes.”  via @WSJ.

RT @WSJ: Tanzania’s first female president came to power as a renowned defender of human rights. She is clinging to it, critics say, by loc….

“People resonated with her,” said Nicodemus Minde, a Tanzanian political scientist.“She was seen as a figure who would bring about reconciliation—a radical departure from her predecessor.” with @caroline__kimeu .via @WSJ.

How Rwanda-backed rebels have imposed their new authority harshly after taking over a Congo city -“They now know my address—I have nowhere to hide," via @WSJ.

Relative wealth and generations of history in South Africa are dissuading many Afrikaners from claiming Trump’s offer to come to the U.S. as refugees rpts @alexandrawexler via @WSJ.

The auditor noticed $500,000 was missing—then some of it was found in a shopping bag. The bizarre state of the Vatican’s broken finances. “He has to give the money back,” Francis told the auditor.via @WSJ.

Ever since @UEDCLTD took over from @UmemeLtd it has looked like the days of UEB! loadshedding is a daily constant, in less than a month, how will things look like in a year?.

Astonishing! @FrancisXRocca After the Vatican permitted priests to bless same-sex couples in December 2023, the African bishops swiftly protested. Remarkably, the pope backed down and agreed that the permission would not apply on their continent.

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The people of Gaza—the one in Mozambique—are especially befuddled over why the apocryphal prophylactics were singled out as evidence of the allegedly wasteful spending Trump says is determined to eliminate.via @WSJ.

Fears are growing that a rebel militia is using violence to consolidate control in the Darfur region of Sudan--“I don’t know where my husband is,” our lts via @WSJ.

RT @ChrisKasali: From @Nicholasbariyo @WSJ on scramble for #congo minerals: #Uganda and #Rwanda don’t produce much gold or coltan. 2023, Ug….

RT @RhiannonHoyle: Mineral riches are turning the Democratic Republic of Congo—already a region plagued by militia violence—into a battlegr….

A standoff between South Sudan’s president and his deputy is threatening to tip the world’s youngest nation into a fresh round of ethnic killing,“I can’t afford to run away again,”our latest via @WSJ.

“It’s hitting us on all fronts,” said Caleb Ragland, president of the American Soybean Association and a soy farmer in Magnolia, Ky. “You’re talking about the potential of a flat-out crisis in rural America and the farm economy.” via @WSJ.

Iyad ag Ghali leads one of the world’s most deadly al Qaeda franchises. His militants have become so powerful that there is a risk that Mali, or neighboring Burkina Faso could become the world’s first nation ruled by al Qaeda. via @WSJ.