here is your latest african news africa why africans trying to flee ukraine still complain
of being blocked and of racist treatment africans fleeing the conflict in ukraine have said they
faced racism and discrimination in ukraine and at neighboring border post a number of reports and
footage posted on social media in the past week has shown acts of discrimination and violence
against african and caribbean citizens many of them studying in ukraine while fleeing ukrainian
cities and that some of the country's border posts some africans said officials rudely stopped them
from crossing the border for days in spite of the cold and lack of food and other supplies
even as they let white refugees enter the country some more also denied hotel admissions to shield
them from the cold nights with hotels stating that admission was for whites only social media
users were outraged by some of the videos shared with one clearly showing a ukrainian policeman
refusing africans from boarding a train out of ukraine somalia and kenya somalia's nullified
oil exploration deal fuels heat in mogadishu and nairobi somalia's controversial oil deal
with the u.s oil firm last week is raising suspicions in nairobi amid an unresolved
maritime border dispute between the two countries on february 19th somalia's petroleum and mineral
resources minister announced the signing of seven production sharing agreements psas with
coastline exploration a u.s company co-founded by a russian oligarch says it is focused on the east
african oil scene soon after the announcement the country's top leadership the president the prime
minister and the auditor general declared the deal null and illegal the deal has left kenyan
officials confused especially after somalia's top leadership reversed contracts making it
impossible to file a protest note to mogadishu kenya has said it is concerned about firms
entering into deals for resources in dispute kenya and somalia have been entangled in a maritime
border dispute since 2014 when mogadishu sued nairobi at the international court
of justice in the head seeking to redraw their maritime boundary democratic republic of congo
democratic republic of congo recovers more than two billion dollars from corrupt israeli tycoon
the democratic republic of congo has signed an amicable agreement with a ventura group of israeli
businessman dan gatler to end the legal dispute between them and allow the country to retain
some assets the government has announced according to the government the blocks and assets to be
reclaimed are valued at more than two billion dollars the deal also allows the country to
recover a sustainable part of the royalties from the kamoto copper company also owned by dan gatla
however nothing has been said about royalties from the mutunda mining and metal call projects
in the southeast of the country estimated by ngos to be worth more than 600 million dollars
gettler an israeli businessman is still under u.s sanction after being accused of corruption
in march 2021 washington reinstated sanctions against the tycoon who made his fortune in the
mining sector in the democratic republic of congo zimbabwe chinese granite miner corruptly
obtained license court hears two mines and mining development ministry workers have appeared at the
marandera magistrate court facing a charge of criminal abuse of office after they allegedly
approved issuance of granite mining certificates to a chinese company in ozumba and rotoco the two
were employed as survey and geological technicians respectively at the machina land east ministry
provincial offices in maruandera have been arraigned before the court after their alleged
corrupt activities were unearthed by the zimbabwe anti-corruption commission they are accused of
contravening section 31 of the mines and minerals act which prohibits people from pegging or
prosecuting in villages without written consent of the occupiers or that of the local authority
uganda uganda opens 200 million dollar iron ore smelting plant uganda has commissioned a
200 million dollar iron ores melting plant which will help the region reduce its reliance on scrap
metal billets and coil for raw materials tembo steel's uganda limited is building a facility in
igenga eastern uganda with the capacity to produce 1.2 million tons of metal per year the region is
facing a scarcity of cast iron scrap tanzania and ronda used to be sources of cast iron but it is no
longer available in those countries the project will allow uganda to supply smelted iron ore
and products to its domestic market as well as kenya ronda burundi south sudan and the democratic
republic of congo uganda spends over 360 million dollars annually on the importation of steel with
at least 70 percent on the importation of coils and billet products some 30 is spent on finished
iron and steel products the firm said uganda has confirmed iron ore deposits of over 500 million
tons these include hematite iron ore found in moko in kabale and kisore district of southwestern
uganda the magnetite iron ore in sukhulu and bukusu in tororo district in eastern uganda
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