Nicholas Bariyo
Africa Correspondent at The Wall Street Journal
Reporter at the Wall Street Journal. Watching Uganda and Africa's Great Lakes Region.DMs open, story tips to [email protected]
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Nicholas Bariyo |Mohamed B. Zakaria
Hawa Adam spent hours hiding in a hole she dug inside her makeshift shelter at the Zamzam refugee camp in Sudan’s Darfur region. Heavy gunfire and loud explosions drowned out the cries of women, children and the elderly trying to outrun what was one of the worst attacks in the country’s two-year-long civil war. Camp administrators said at least 500 people, mainly Black Sudanese, were killed when the ethnic-Arab Rapid Support Forces targeted the country’s largest displacement camp on April 12.
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Nicholas Bariyo
Vast country struggles to prevent Rwanda and Uganda from seizing valuable assetsKAMPALA, Uganda—During the 19th century’s Scramble for Africa, European countries raced to secure territory and wealth across the continent. Now, African powers are grabbing resources from a neighbor crippled by infighting and ill-equipped to defend itself.
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Nicholas Bariyo
The officials say Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and Rwandan President Paul Kagame are pouring troops and weapons into Congo, while their Congolese allies, who control strategic border crossings, secure smuggling routes to move more minerals to the global markets. The influx began three years ago, when Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi invited Ugandan troops into Congo to fight an Islamic State-aligned rebel group based in woodlands straddling the border between the two countries.
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2 months ago |
wsj.com | Nicholas Bariyo
President and his deputy are stoking ethnic rivalries, risking a repeat of a brutal slaughterA standoff between the president and his deputy is threatening to tip the world’s youngest nation, South Sudan, into a fresh round of ethnic killing. The rivalry between President Salva Kiir and his first vice president, Riek Machar, ratcheted up from tense to combustible last week when Kiir’s defense minister led a convoy of troops to Machar’s residence, disarmed his bodyguards and detained him.
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2 months ago |
cn.wsj.com | Benoit Faucon |Nicholas Bariyo |Alex Ward
饱受战争蹂躏的非洲国家刚果民主共和国（刚果(金)）的领导人向美国总统特朗普(Donald Trump)提出一项秘密交易：帮助刚果(金)击败势力强大的叛军，以换取美国高科技公司所需的大量矿产开采权。在2月8日致特朗普的一封信中，刚果(金)总统费利克斯·齐塞克迪(Félix Tshisekedi)提出为美国主权财富基金提供采矿机会。特朗普在那几天前刚刚启动了该基金。Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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The auditor noticed $500,000 was missing—then some of it was found in a shopping bag. The bizarre state of the Vatican’s broken finances. “He has to give the money back,” Francis told the auditor.https://t.co/v0EEczMG4H via @WSJ
Ever since @UEDCLTD took over from @UmemeLtd it has looked like the days of UEB! loadshedding is a daily constant, in less than a month, how will things look like in a year?
Astonishing! @FrancisXRocca After the Vatican permitted priests to bless same-sex couples in December 2023, the African bishops swiftly protested. Remarkably, the pope backed down and agreed that the permission would not apply on their continent.
https://t.co/7WdvQMeBx6
