Onize Oduah

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On May 31, Kamil Idris was sworn in as prime minister of Sudan. He looked the part of an elected leader in a black three-piece suit adorned with a Sudanese flag lapel pin. A former United Nations official, Idris is a respected figure in his own right. But far more power lies in the hands of the man in uniform who stood directly across from him during the ceremony, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). It was Burhan who installed Idris—not a popular vote.

Jan 31, 2025 | wng.org | Onize Oduah

Trucks covered with white tarps stopped at the Rwandan border city of Gisenyi this week. Throngs of displaced residents poured out—some carrying suitcases and others hauling mattresses and personal belongings in plastic bags and backpacks. Long lines of white buses transported them to a makeshift camp after fighting escalated this week across the border in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Jan 29, 2025 | wng.org | Onize Oduah

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: World Tour, with our reporter in Africa, Onize Oduah. AUDIO: [Sound of people fleeing] DRC crisis — ONIZE ODUAH: We start today in Central Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo where heightened rebel violence in the eastern region has sent millions fleeing. Gunfire rocked the region’s largest city of Goma on Monday as the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels claimed they captured the city.

Jan 22, 2025 | wng.org | Onize Oduah

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: World Tour with our reporter in Africa, Onize Oduah. AUDIO: [Ongoing rescue]South Africa illegal mine — We start today in South Africa where authorities have ended their search for people stranded in an illegal gold mine after a standoff turned deadly. At least 87 miners have died after police first surrounded the mine in the town of Stilfontein in August as part of an effort to clamp down on illegal mining.

Jan 15, 2025 | wng.org | Onize Oduah

NICK EICHER, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: WORLD Tour with our reporter in Africa, Onize Oduah. SOUND: [SINGING]We begin today’s World Tour at celebrations in the North African nation of Sudan. Soldiers and civilians danced in the streets of the key city of Wad Madani on Sunday, one day after Sudanese armed forces recaptured it from rebel forces. Wad Madani is less than a hundred miles south of Sudan’s capital of Khartoum.