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The 27-nation bloc put Antwerp-born businessman Alain Goetz on the asset freeze and visa ban blacklist for profiting from gold mined in rebel-held areas of eastern DRC
Brussels: The EU on Thursday imposed sanctions on a Belgian gold trader, rebel chiefs and a senior army officer for fuelling fighting and human rights...
Russia and China froze the UN Group of Experts on Congo for five months—now the group is far warier of criticising China, Russia and China, increasingly intolerant of criticism of their nationals in United Nations reports, froze the work of several UN Groups of Experts during 2021 and 2022. The two superpowers exercised their blocking power by refusing to approve the list of experts for various groups. The UN Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo was blocked between August 2021 and January this year, although the two superpowers did not give their reasons. This came after the publication of various UN reports shedding light on the activities of mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group in the Central African Republic, and illegal mining operations by Chinese nationals in Congo-Kinshasa.
A closer look at the “dirty dozen” individuals and groups that member states should consider as prime candidates for the Security Council’s al-Qaeda, Islamic State, and Taliban designation list.
The Islamic State has claimed two suicide bombings in the Ugandan capital Kampala. In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert Dino Mahtani unpacks what happened and assesses the threat of further such attacks in East Africa.
Regional security services say they have uncovered training networks and a cash pipeline of hundreds of thousands of dollars to fighters affiliated with the group , The double suicide-bomb attack in Kampala on 16 November was the fourth terrorist explosion in Uganda in two months. Security services in the region are focused on what they see as a growing threat from jihadists claiming allegiance to so-called Islamic State (or Da'ish) throughout East Africa. Ugandan security officials, who say they have arrested over 100 terrorist suspects since June, are stepping up coordination with their counterparts in neighbouring Congo-Kinshasa.