In Sudan, the brutal RSF militia is besieging the city of El Obeid. It may be repeating its siege last year of El Fasher where it slaughtered 60,000 people. World leaders warn of mass atrocities but won't name the country behind this mass murder and mass rape. So I will: It's the UAE.
Neither the Biden nor Trump administration was willing to offend the UAE by holding it accountable for what Washington described as the genocide unfolding in Sudan. Trump, whose family is enriched by business dealings with the UAE, is silent. So the slaughter continues.
The UAE even has a candidate for UN Secretary General, and people are too polite to point out that a country empowering mass atrocities might not be ideal for that role.
I write: "We should have the fortitude to speak up about human rights outrages whether the responsible party is Russia, China, Israel, America or the Emirates; if you care about human rights in only some places, you don’t actually care about human rights."
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✔️ Jacob Ramsey has recovered from illness and should be fine.
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❌ Lewis Miley, Bruno Guimarães, Emil Krafth and Fabian Schär all ruled out.
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Comrade Mwabili Mwagodi has been set free.
The court has made a ruling on the two prayers by the ODPP.
On the first prayer where the ODPP wanted the court to allow them detain Mwabili's phone and investigate his social handles, the court has decided that the DCI already has got Mwabili's phone, so they should continue with the investigation and only limit it to X account and not any other personal data.
On the Second application, where the ODPP were asking to detain Mwabili for seven days pending investigations, the court has denied the prayer citing his right to freedom and liberty, adding that he has already been in the custody of police for the last three days.
The court has therefore directed that he be released and he will be reporting everyday at 9 a.m with his advocate to the I.O at the Mazingira Complex, DCI headquarters.
Mwabili Mwagodi is strong and is urging all of us not to bow to threats and intimidations.
We shall overcome ✊
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Kenyan police say a 37-year-old dual citizen of Somalia and Australia has been arrested at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in connection with fraud.
The suspect, Ige Nasa, was intercepted at Terminal 1A upon arrival from Australia via Johannesburg aboard a Kenya Airways flight.
He served as an international relations advisor to the Somali president and was later dismissed.