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June 20, 2018
Hope in the Horn as Eritrea-Ethiopia thaw takes shape
ADDIS ABABA — Eritrea’s president broke weeks of silence on Wednesday to respond positively to conciliatory overtures from bitter foe Ethiopia, raising hopes of a fresh start in the Horn of Africa.A brutal, fruitless border conflict between the two countries ended nearly two decades ago. Since then, both have maintained a war footing with shots occasionally fired, and backed each other’s rebels.Their long cold war has stymied economic development, frozen ...
June 18, 2018
With eye on election, Zimbabwe’s president queues for fried chicken
HARARE — Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa queued with punters to buy fried chicken this weekend, state media reported on Monday, setting out the former security chief’s ‘everyman’ credentials a month ahead of an election.In scenes unthinkable last year under former leader Robert Mugabe, Mnangagwa’s convoy made an unscheduled stop on Sunday at a fast food outlet in the small town of Chegutu, 100 km west of the capital Harare.“He ordered ...
June 17, 2018
Suicide blasts kill dozens in northeast Nigeria
KANO — Suspected Boko Haram militants killed at least 31 people in a twin suicide bomb attack on a town in northeast Nigeria, a local official and militia leader said on Sunday.Two blasts ripped through the town of Damboa in Borno state on Saturday evening targeting people returning from celebrating the Eid Al-Fitr holiday, in an attack bearing all the hallmarks of Boko Haram.Following the suicide bombings, the militants fired ...
June 14, 2018
Two stabbed to death in South Africa mosque, attacker killed
MALMESBURY, South Africa — A man stabbed two people to death and wounded two others in an attack on Thursday at a mosque in South Africa before being shot dead by police, officers said.Police have surrounded the building in Malmesbury near Cape Town outside which a body lay under a tree and a penknife had been discarded nearby, said an AFP correspondent at the scene. The attacker’s motive remains unclear.It ...
May 30, 2018
Kenya’s president vows to recover stolen millions
NAIROBI — Kenyan President vowed on Wednesday that some $80 million (70 million euros) stolen from the national youth agency in the country’s latest corruption scandal would be recovered.“We shall recover all the stolen money. There will be no mercy for the thieves. Their days are numbered. They will be prosecuted and jailed,” he said in a statement.On Tuesday 24 of 54 suspects were hit with a raft of fraud ...
May 30, 2018
Zimbabwe sets first post-Mugabe elections for July 30
HARARE — Zimbabwe will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on July 30, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Wednesday, a vote he vows will be free and fair with international monitoring after the ouster of 94-year-old strongman Robert Mugabe.Mnangagwa, who took power after the November military coup against Mugabe, counts on the election to bolster his legitimacy as he pursues a promised break with Mugabe’s repressive policies while urging foreign investors ...
May 20, 2018
Kenyan investigators to question more than 40 people over ‘massive theft’
NAIROBI — Kenyan investigators have summoned more than 40 people for questioning after a “massive theft of public funds” at the country’s National Youth Service (NYS), the head of the directorate of criminal investigations said on Sunday.Domestic media reports said 10 billion shillings ($100 million) had been stolen through fictitious invoices, and multiple payments on one supplier invoice, at the NYS.The reports have dismayed many Kenyans, particularly as it follows ...
May 5, 2018
Final death toll at South African gold mine rises to seven
JOHANNESBURG — Seven miners were killed at Sibanye-Stillwater’s Masakhane mine while six others are recovering in hospital after being trapped underground for two days, the company said on Saturday.A total of 13 miners had been trapped at the mine located in its Driefontein operations west of Johannesburg on Thursday after an earthquake caused a cave-in, in a country that is home to the world’s deepest mines.The death toll stood at ...
May 2, 2018
Security increased in northeast Nigeria after deadly bombings
ABUJA — Nigeria on Wednesday ordered increased security around markets and places of worship after a twin suicide bomb attack killed scores of people in the country’s restive northeast.The emergency services said at least 26 people died in the blasts in the town of Mubi, Adamawa state, on Tuesday but local residents said they buried more than 60 victims.Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, deputizing for President Muhammadu Buhari who has been ...
May 1, 2018
Morocco cuts ties with Iran; Saudi Arabia says it stands by Morocco
Saudi Gazette reportRiyadh — Saudi Arabia stands by Morocco in all measures it takes to safeguard its security, stability and territorial integrity, an official source in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday.The Saudi government strongly condemns Iranian interference in the Moroccan internal affairs through the terrorist Hezbollah militias that train the so-called Polisario Front to destabilize the security and stability of Morocco, the source said.The source said that ...
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