Tanzania's President John Pombe Magufuli has died. He was 61 years old. Dr John Pombe Magufuli, AfroAmerica Network Black Man of Year 2015 (see AfroAmerica: John Pombe Magufuli, AfroAmerica Network Black Man of Year 2015), was President of the ruling party Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM). His death was announced by Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan. According to the announcement, Dr John Magufuli died at Mzena Hospital, of heart complications.
Africa
Ugandan Opposition Leader Bobi Wine Tells Media That He lives as if it's a final day
On January 14, 2021 Ugandans casted their votes for their next president. The main candidates were Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, 76, the current president and Africa's third longest-serving dictator, and Ugandan prominent opposition politician and music star, Bobi Wine, 38, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi. As, predicted by AfroAmerica Network, the Ugandan dictator was declared the winner. Worldwide, it was an open secret that the votes were rigged. Bobi Wine rejected the results. Now he is fearing for his life and the lives of his followers. This week, Bobi Wine told the Western media, especially the US-based National Public Radio (NPR), that he knows he won the elections but he now lives everyday "as if it's a final day."
Rwanda: Was Activist Yvonne Idamange Iryamugwiza Arrested Following a Failed Assassination Attempt?
Rwandan activist Idamange Iryamugwiza Yvonne was arrested by Rwandan national police, known as RNB, in the evening of February 15, 2021. However, according to news received from sources close to the Rwandan security services, the arrest, as described by the Rwandan National Police, was allegedly executed following a failed assassination ordered by a person close to the ailing Rwandan dictator General Paul Kagame. Ms Idamange Iryamugwiza Yvonne became suddenly a prominent activist after she made statements and recorded videos that went viral on social media, pointing to widespread assassinations and disappearances of opposition leaders and government critics and abuses, corruption and other massacres by the Rwandan governent and military and the ailing Rwandan dictator General Paul Kagame (see AfroAmerica Network here:Rwanda: Activist Yvonne Idamange Iryamukwiza Arrested For Denouncing Crimes, Assassinations and Widespread Human Rights Abuses by the Government)
Rwanda: Activist Yvonne Idamange Iryamugwiza Arrested For Denouncing Crimes, Assassinations and Widespread Human Rights Abuses by the Government
Her name is Idamange Iryamugwiza Yvonne (see picture). She is 42-years old, a mother of four, from the Rwanda Tutsi ethnic group, whose family members were massacred during the 1990-1994 Rwandan genocide and interethnic massacres. In recent public statements and videos that went viral on social media, she said that “Rwanda is a country of sheep without a shepherd”, pointing to widespread assassinations and disappearances of opposition leaders and government critics and abuses, corruption and other massacres by the Rwandan governent and military and the ailing Rwandan dictator General Paul Kagame, who has lately suddenly almost disappeared from the public. The Rwandan government dictatorship took notice. Ms Idamange Iryamugwiza Yvonne was arrested by Rwandan national police, known as RNB, in the evening of February 15, 2021.