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This article talks of how a person can have their military career furthered in Somalia by being violent and breaking international law. This relates to our discussion because the person in question uses fear to develop power.

This article discusses how Al Shabaab has named a new leader, Ahmed Omar Abu Ubaidah, after Ahmed Godane was killed in a US airstrike. The article mentions the group's acts of terror in Somalia and beyond, but says that the group suffered a huge loss with the death of its leader. This relates to the packet since it discusses Al Shabaab and some of its acts of terror in and outside of Somalia.

After the death of the Al-Shabaab leader, Ahmed Godane, the terror group has announced its new leader. The group states that even without Godane, the actions of Al-Shabaab will continue as usual. This relates to our studies, because the Al-Shabaab is a terror group that is active in Kenya and other nations in Africa that we are studying.

This article describes how some people have abused the Zimbabwe land reform. It states that people have gotten more land by registering under the names of their children as young as 10. This shows that the land reform in Zimbabwe can be abused.

A leader of Shabab was killed by an American airstrike. Since then, they have named a new leader and still have access to a lot of money and weapons, which means they are still a threat.

Joseph Kabila has named to a top army post a general accused by U.N. experts of selling weapons to rebel groups responsible for massacring civilians in East DRC. This also refers to the first article from Part F, where the government was violent towards innocent people. These actions from Kabila have been going on since a known period in 2012.

This article describes what Congo must do to satisfy the UN-arranged peace accord, naming Rwanda refugees and delayed reforms as the barriers to achieving this. This realtes to the NPR report on the continuing violence of the civil war, and coincides with the idea that peace agreements are not always obeyed. This article also describes recent protests by citizens who want to change the constitution so leader Joseph Kabila can remain in power. This relates to the description of Kabila's leadership in the database article.

In this article, it describes how the DRC is trying to change to accept the new peace deal that they are in with 10 other African countries. There have been a lot of delays from Kinshasa because of legal issues. There have also been protests against Kabila and his overwhelming victory in the latest elections. This refers to the first article of Part F because the DRC had always had governmental problems n the past.

This article describes what the DRC needs to do to follow the peace accord. It also tells of how rape and murder go on without any punishment from the government, and many people in the militaries have been committing many crimes such as rape during these harsh times.