Africa

The UK is to devote more troops to UN peacekeeping, with personnel being sent to South Sudan, the BBC has learned.

Paul Kagame and Museveni, Augus 2013

The United States will not support African dictators bent on changing the constitutions of the countries to allow themselves to cling onto power, the US State Department said in a statement on Friday, September 4, 2015 by State Department Spokesperson John Kirby . The statement condemned Rwanda’s Parliament and President Paul Kagame for the decision to " establish a Constitutional Reform Commission that may amend or remove executive term limits and permit President Kagame to seek a third term in 2017."

The statement by the US State Department immediately drew a scathing reply from the self styled Rwandan Foreign Minister, Louise

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