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October 19, 2019
Rebel leader in Juba in bid to salvage peace accord
JUBA — South Sudan's exiled rebel leader Riek Machar arrived in Juba on Saturday in a bid to salvage a peace deal with less than a month to go until he is to form a government with President Salva Kiir.The foes, whose falling out in 2013 triggered a bloody civil war that has left almost 400,000 people dead and sparked a major humanitarian crisis, signed a peace deal in September ...
October 18, 2019
Stony silence from Eritrea as Ethiopia basks in Nobel glow
ADDIS ABABA — While Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was praised for efforts to end years of bitter tension with Eritrea in his Nobel Peace Prize award last week, his Eritrean partner in the peace-making has conspicuously failed to offer his congratulations.Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki was acknowledged for accepting Abiy's peace offer in the Norwegian Nobel Committee's announcement, which held out hope of "positive change" in both countries. But he ...
October 15, 2019
New clashes in Guinea after six die in protests
CONAKRY — Violent protests erupted in the Guinean capital Conakry on Tuesday, a day after five civilians and a policeman died in clashes, a reporter and witnesses said.Hundreds of youths in rundown districts on the edge of the city erected barricades, burned tires and hurled stones at police, who responded with teargas, they said.Residents in Cosa, Koloma and Bambeto districts said that troops and police had entered the areas to ...
October 15, 2019
Mozambique votes in high-stakes election
MAPUTO - Mozambicans voted on Tuesday in an election that could test a fragile two-month-old peace deal between the ruling Frelimo party and its old civil war foe turned opposition rival Renamo.The presidential, legislative and provincial polls are widely expected to extend Frelimo's decades-long rule over the southern African nation that is set to become one of the world's main gas exporters.But Renamo is hoping to use electoral changes agreed ...
October 12, 2019
Embassies in Malawi condemn violence over election results
BLANTYRE, Malawi — Six foreign ambassadors in Malawi on Friday condemned a spate of violent protests that have rocked the country since presidential elections in May, in an unprecedented diplomatic reaction to the crisis.The ambassadors of Britain, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Norway and the United States issued a joint statement on Friday condemning "any form of violence".Thousands of people across Malawi have repeatedly taken to the streets to contest the re-election ...
October 11, 2019
S. Africa court rules ex-leader Zuma must face corruption trial
PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa — South Africa's scandal-plagued former president Jacob Zuma will face trial on corruption charges over a 1990s arms deal, a court ruled on Friday, in one of multiple alleged graft cases over his long political career.The court dismissed Zuma's bid for a permanent stay of prosecution over 16 counts of fraud, racketeering and money laundering relating to the multi-billion-dollar arms deal dating back to before he took ...
October 11, 2019
Two hurt as Kenyan plane veers off runway
NAIROBI — An aircraft flying 55 people from Kenya's capital to tourist attraction Lamu island veered off the runway during takeoff, skidding into some trees and leaving two injured, authorities said Friday.The plane, operated by domestic airline Silverstone Air, was to make a stop at port city Mombasa before heading to Lamu, home to a UNESCO world heritage site off Kenya's northern coast."This morning at around 9:00 am, a Fokker ...
October 9, 2019
Zimbabwe quadruples electricity price as crisis deepens
HARARE — Zimbabwe on Wednesday quadrupled electricity tariffs amid crippling power shortages which have plunged parts of the country into darkness for up to 18 hours as the economy lurches deeper into crisis.Zimbabwe's economy is caught in a major downturn with shortages of fuel, medicine, and currency as well as hyperinflation which has seen many families living on a single meal a day.Citing "the depreciation of the local currency," the ...
October 8, 2019
Sudan has received half of $3 aid promised by Saudi Arabia, UAE
ABU DHABI — Sudan has received half of the $3 billion in aid promised by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in April and expects the remainder to be paid by the end of next year, Sudan's finance minister said late on Monday.The Gulf countries agreed the aid package soon after former President Omar Bashir was ousted in April, throwing a lifeline to Sudan's new military leaders at the ...
October 8, 2019
Zuma's son says not corrupt, but victim of S.African political 'storm'
JOHANNESBURG — The son of South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma, accused by witnesses of acting as a conduit in a major web of state graft, said on Tuesday he was not corrupt, but was caught up in political crossfire.Duduzane Zuma, 35, was testifying before a judicial inquiry probing allegations that his father organized a systematic plunder of government coffers in a scandal known as "state capture"."I'm looked at as a ...
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