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June 17, 2019
Sudan protesters urge new night-time rallies
Khartoum — The Sudanese movement whose protests triggered the ouster of president Omar Al-Bashir called Monday on its supporters to begin new night-time rallies to condemn the "massacre" of demonstrators at a Khartoum sit-in.Thousands of protesters who had camped outside the Khartoum military headquarters for weeks were violently dispersed by gunmen in military fatigues on June 3, leaving dozens dead and hundreds wounded, according to doctors and witnesses.The sit-in was ...
June 17, 2019
30 killed in triple suicide bombing in northeast Nigeria
KANO, Nigeria — Thirty people were killed late Sunday in a triple suicide bombing in northeast Nigeria, emergency services reported, in an attack bearing the hallmarks of the Boko Haram militant group.Three bombers detonated their explosives outside a hall in Konduga, 38 km from the Borno state capital Maiduguri, where football fans were watching a match on TV."The death toll from the attack has so far increased to 30. We ...
June 16, 2019
Gunmen on motorcycles kill 34 villagers in Nigeria
KANO — Gunmen have killed 34 people in Nigeria's northern Zamfara state where criminal gangs have been terrorizing remote villages, police said Sunday.Armed bandits on motorcycles stormed into neighboring Tungar Kafau and Gidan Wawa villages in Shinkafi district late Friday and shot dead 34 people, state police spokesman Mohammed Shehu said in a statement."Normalcy has been restored in Tungar Kafau and Gidan Wawa... following attack by armed bandits... where 34 ...
June 16, 2019
Sudan's Bashir appears before prosecutor
KHARTOUM — Fallen Sudanese leader Omar Al-Bashir was Sunday seen in public for the first time since being ousted, as he was driven in an armed convoy to the prosecutor's office.The former strongman, who ruled his northeast African nation with an iron fist for three decades, was toppled on April 11 after weeks of protests against his reign.Dressed in a white traditional robe and turban, Bashir rode in a heavily-armed ...
June 16, 2019
Niger church torched after imam's arrest
NIAMEY — Protesters torched a church overnight in the southern Niger city of Maradi after the arrest of a prominent imam, religious and security sources told AFP.The assailants also burnt the pastor's car, a church official said in a WhatsApp message to parishioners that was copied to AFP. "The police is already there, we must be careful," he added.A local security source confirmed the attack in Maradi's working-class district of ...
June 15, 2019
Benin police open fire on protesters, kill 2
Savè, Bénin — Benin security forces killed two protesters Saturday in the city of Save while breaking up a demonstration by people who erected barricades and blocked the national road for days, the mayor said.This followed days of demonstrations over controversial April 28 parliamentary elections in the West African country."This morning, a contingent of the republican police came to clear the roadblocks," said Timothee Biaou, mayor of the central town ...
June 15, 2019
EU urges Nigeria electoral reform after disputed polls
Abuja — European Union election observers on Saturday called on Nigeria to consider urgent electoral reforms after identifying "systemic failings" in the recent presidential, parliamentary and governorship elections.The EU mission, which was in Nigeria between January and April, said the elections were marred by serious operational and transparency shortcomings, electoral security problems and low turnout.President Muhammadu Buhari won 56 percent of the votes to secure a second term in office. ...
June 15, 2019
Landmine blast kills 8 Kenyan police near Somali border
Nairobi — Eight Kenyan police officers were killed Saturday when their vehicle ran over a landmine during a patrol near the border with Somalia, police said.Police Inspector General Hilary Mutyambai said a landcruiser with 11 police on board "was hit by an improvised explosive device".He did not give a toll but a regional police source told AFP: "We lost eight police officers in this attack".They had been on patrol between ...
June 15, 2019
WHO panel won't declare global Ebola emergency
GENEVA — A World Health Organization panel decided on Friday not to declare an international emergency over Congo's Ebola outbreak despite its spread to Uganda this week, concluding such a declaration could cause too much economic harm.Congo's epidemic is the second worst ever, with 2,108 cases of Ebola and 1,411 deaths since last August. This week, it reached Uganda, where three cases were recorded, all in people who had arrived ...
June 12, 2019
US names envoy to find 'peaceful political solution' in Sudan
WASHINGTON — The US State Department nominated experienced Africa hand Donald Booth as a special envoy to Sudan on Wednesday, hoping he can help craft a "peaceful political solution" between the military rulers and groups seeking civilian rule.The nomination comes nine days after government troops and paramilitaries cracked down on protesters outside army headquarters in Khartoum, killing more than 110 and wounding hundreds over several days.Booth, 65, knows the country ...
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