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April 23, 2018
Thousands march in Madagascar to protest over election laws
ANTANANARIVO — Thousands marched in protest against the government in Madagascar’s capital on Monday after the president denounced unrest in which two people were killed as a “coup” intended to divide the country’s people.On Saturday, police fired teargas at an opposition demonstration held in protest against new electoral laws, where one person died and more than a dozen were treated for injuries, some caused by teargas canisters.Another individual injured in ...
April 22, 2018
Two suicide bombers kill four in north Nigeria mosque
KANO, Nigeria — Two suicide bombers killed four Muslim worshippers in a mosque in a northeast Nigerian town still being rebuilt after virtual destruction by Boko Haram in 2014, sources said on Sunday.The bombers, a man and a woman, detonated their explosives inside the mosque during morning prayers on Saturday in the town of Bama in Borno state.The pair “blew themselves up in a mosque while people were praying” said ...
April 21, 2018
One killed, 16 injured as Madagascar police disperse protests
ANTANANARIVO — One person was killed on Saturday when Madagascar police fired teargas at opposition demonstrators protesting against new electoral laws they say are designed to lock out their candidate from a presidential election due this year.Olivat Rakoto, director of the Joseph Ravoahangy Andrianavalona hospital in the city, said they had received 17 people with injuries from midday (0900 GMT) to 3 p.m. (1200 GMT).“One person came but we could ...
April 21, 2018
Security challenges loom over Buhari’s re-election bid
KANO, Nigeria — Muhammadu Buhari’s pledge to end Boko Haram’s insurgency in northeast Nigeria played a large part in his 2015 presidential election victory.With elections approaching next year and Buhari,75, having declared his intention to seek a second, four-year term, the extent to which he has done that is coming under increasing scrutiny.But as Africa’s most populous nation gears up for months of hard campaigning before the vote in February ...
April 18, 2018
Zimbabwe sacks thousands of striking nurses
HARARE — Zimbabwe has fired all nurses who went on strike to demand higher salaries, in a hardline response by the country’s new leadership to growing labor arrest.Several thousand nurses were sacked in a terse statement issued on Tuesday evening by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, who accused the strikers of being “politically motivated”.Patients were turned away from major hospitals after the nurses began their industrial action on Monday, shortly after ...
April 16, 2018
South African authorities raid Gupta compound in Johannesburg
JOHANNESBURG — South African police on Monday raided the compound of former president Jacob Zuma’s allies the Guptas, who were accused two years ago in a report by a corruption watchdog of using their influence to gain control of state companies and contracts.The National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) spokesman Luvuyo Mfaku said the raid was part of an investigation into theft, fraud and money laundering at a state-backed dairy project in ...
April 16, 2018
Ethiopia ends internet blackout, raising hopes of reforms under new PM
ADDIS ABABA — Internet users in Ethiopia said on Monday the government appeared to have ended a three-month online blackout, raising hopes of a relaxation of restrictions after the arrival of a new prime minister who promised reforms.Mobile and broadband internet services shut down in December in many regions outside the capital that were hit by unrest that threatened the ruling coalition’s tight hold on country.Rights groups accused the government ...
April 14, 2018
Vigils, marches, prayers as Nigeria marks marks fourth anniversary of Chibok kidnap
CHIBOK, Nigeria — Parents of the missing Chibok schoolgirls on Saturday marked the fourth anniversary of their daughters’ kidnapping by Boko Haram, renewing calls for their release and thousands of others seized in the bloody conflict in northeast Nigeria.Mothers and fathers were among several thousand people who marched to the Government Girls Secondary School, where 276 girls were abducted on the evening of April 14, 2014.Fifty-seven escaped in the immediate ...
April 14, 2018
South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon Winnie Mandela laid to rest
SOWETO, South Africa — South Africa laid to rest anti-apartheid heroine Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Saturday, after 40,000 people from across the political spectrum mourned her at a funeral ceremony in her township of Soweto.Madikizela-Mandela’s death on April 2 at the age of 81 after a long illness was met by an outpouring of emotion across the country, with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and opposition parties holding memorials to ...
April 12, 2018
Play smashes taboo, mocks the Mugabes
By Reagan Mashavave"THE president is in charge and that means me too," says Zimbabwe's "former first lady Grace Mugabe" to howls of laughter from the theater audience."Everyone must rally behind me, the mother of the nation. I am the wife of the president.""Grace" was on the stage of Harare's Theater in the Park, brought to life by actress Carol Magenga in a recent three-day run of a production called "Operation ...
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