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Junta leader Capt Ibrahim Traoré has kept a low profile since the attack on the army base
Attack on army base fuels Burkina Faso mutiny rumors
OUAGADOUGOU — An attack that reportedly killed more than 100 soldiers on an army base in Burkina Faso has snowballed into speculation about unrest in the security forces, in a country where the military has been in power since 2022.The leader of the military junta has since appeared on state TV in an attempt to debunk the rumors.Burkina Faso has been battling Islamist insurgents for several years and about half the country is outside government control.The Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) group has said it was behind last Tuesday's attack in the northern town of Mansila.The following day, there was an explosion near the headquarters of the state television.According to several reports, armed men attacked the military base, located near the border with Niger, on 11...
June 21, 2024

Attack on army base fuels Burkina Faso mutiny rumors

Cyril Ramaphosa
South Africa's Ramaphosa sworn in for second term
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa has been sworn in for a second full term in office as president, despite failing to secure a majority in parliament in last month's election for his African National Congress (ANC).Lawmakers re-elected him as president last week following a deal between the ANC, its long-time rival Democratic Alliance (DA) and other parties to form a coalition government.The ANC, which has governed since the end of apartheid in 1994, lost its majority for the first time after the 29 May election produced no outright winner.Many dignitaries, including several African heads of states, are attending the ceremony."I swear I will be faithful to the Republic of South Africa... I will obey, observe and uphold the constitution and all other laws of the...
June 19, 2024

South Africa's Ramaphosa sworn in for second term

An armored vehicle of Chad's army forces deployed in N'Djamena on May 10, 2024
Deadly blaze breaks out at ammunition depot in Chad
N'DAJAMENA — People have been killed and injured after a huge fire broke out at an ammunition depot in Chad, causing major explosions, senior government ministers have said.Foreign Minister Koulamallah Abderaman said the blaze happened at a military depot in the Goudji area of the capital, N'Djamena.President Mahamat Idriss Deby sent his condolences to the victims and their families, without specifying the number of casualties.Video footage, which has not been verified by the BBC, shows blasts lighting up the night sky.Witnesses said they could be heard miles away.Journalists working for AFP news agency said the blaze caused weapons to fire into the air.There were "explosions of ammunition of all calibers", a French official, who requested anonymity, also told the...
June 19, 2024

Deadly blaze breaks out at ammunition depot in Chad

Former South African President Jacob Zuma is the leader of the MK party
Zuma's MK party to join South Africa's opposition alliance
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s former president, Jacob Zuma, has said his political party — uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) — will join the opposition alliance in parliament.He said it would co-ordinate resistance to the governing coalition led by the African National Congress (ANC).Despite this, MK said it maintained that last month's elections were rigged and wanted the results annulled.Zuma’s speech on Sunday was read by MK spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela who said the ANC was no longer part of the solution.Zuma said there was no government of national unity in South Africa and described the partnership as a “white-led unholy alliance between the DA and the ANC of Ramaphosa”.The ANC lost its outright majority for the first time since the end of apartheid and sealed a power-sharing...
June 17, 2024

Zuma's MK party to join South Africa's opposition alliance

Seller Ibrahim Balarabe Wambai says the ram market is very difficult this year
Muted Eid celebrations for millions of Nigerian Muslims
KANO — “I have slaughtered a ram every year starting from 1976 but this year I can't, I just can't.”Like many of the estimated 100 million Muslims in Nigeria, 78-year-old Mallam Kabiru Tudun Wada is not celebrating Eid al-Adha as he normally would because of the cost-of-living crisis.Muslims around the world traditionally slaughter a ram or another animal on Eid al-Adha, in memory of the prophet Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his own son when God ordered him to.The meat is distributed to the poor and needy.Some of the meat is used to prepare a huge feast for the entire family, while friends and neighbors visit each other and eat the food each family has prepared.“In years gone by I could afford at least one ram but things have never been tighter,” Wada told the...
June 16, 2024

Muted Eid celebrations for millions of Nigerian Muslims

Cyril Ramaphosa reacts in parliament after being re-elected president
Cyril Ramaphosa re-elected South African president
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's parliament has re-elected Cyril Ramaphosa as the country's president following a landmark coalition deal between the governing African National Congress (ANC) and opposition parties.The new government of national unity combines Ramaphosa's ANC, the centre-right Democratic Alliance (DA) and smaller parties.In his victory speech, Ramaphosa hailed the new coalition, and said voters expected the leaders to "to act and to work together for the good of everyone in our country".The agreement was hashed out on a day of high political drama, which saw the National Assembly sitting late into the evening for votes to confirm who would hold power in the new administration.Earlier, a deal was struck following weeks of speculation about whom the ANC...
June 15, 2024

Cyril Ramaphosa re-elected South African president

Saulos Chilima has been vice-president for 10 years
Malawi vice president killed in plane crash along with 9 other passengers
LILONGWE — Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Chilima has been killed in a plane crash along with nine other passengers, the country’s President Lazarus Chakwera announced Tuesday.The aircraft went missing after it failed to land at the Mzuzu International Airport, about 380 km (240 miles) to the north of the capital Lilongwe. The wreckage of the plane has been located, Chakwera said Tuesday.“The search and rescue operation I ordered to find the missing plane that carried our vice president and nine others has been completed. The plane has been found. And I am deeply saddened and sorry to inform you that it has turned out to be a terrible tragedy,” Chakwera said.The Malawian leader disclosed that the aircraft was found “completely destroyed” in the Chikangawa Forest, adding that...
June 11, 2024

Malawi vice president killed in plane crash along with 9 other passengers

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Last civilian hospital in besieged Sudan city closed
KHARTOUM — Doctors at one of the last functioning hospitals in the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher say they've been forced to close down the facility after it was attacked.The hospital has been supported by the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) which had described it as the only one left in el-Fasher where injured civilians could receive treatment.For several days there had been reports of shells hitting the city's South Hospital, causing injuries and deaths.But now eyewitnesses say fighters from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have entered the facility.On Saturday, they drove up to the hospital and opened fire - looting drugs and medical equipment, stealing an ambulance and assaulting staff."Due to the chaos, our team was unable to verify if...
June 10, 2024

Last civilian hospital in besieged Sudan city closed

Nigerian actor Junior Pope
Nigerian star's drowning forces Nollywood to look at safety
LAGOS — The last video that Nigerian actor Junior Pope made for his more than two million Instagram followers eerily foreshadowed his death.“You see the risks, people, we take to entertain you,” the 42-year-old shouts above the noise of a small motor boat as it speeds along the River Niger.He laughs -- it is not clear if it is out of joy or nervousness -- and tells the driver to slow down.“I am begging the captain, that I’m the only child and I have three boys,” the actor -- whose real name was John Paul Odonwodo -- booms as he notices with alarm some water coming into the boat.The next day the Nollywood star was dead. He drowned in the same river, after a boat he was traveling in collided with a fishing canoe.Four others, including film crew members, were also killed.The death...
June 10, 2024

Nigerian star's drowning forces Nollywood to look at safety

Cyril Ramaphosa
South Africa president faces up to poor poll result
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has admitted his African National Congress (ANC) party has suffered a challenging election result, after the party lost its majority for the first time since apartheid ended 30 years ago.The ANC, once led by Nelson Mandela, won 159 seats in the 400-seat parliament in Wednesday's election, down from 230 in the previous assembly.Ramaphosa still described the results as a victory for democracy, calling on rival parties to find common ground - apparently preparing for coalition talks.The opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party has said it is open to coalition talks with Ramaphosa, but it opposes a number of his government's key priorities.With all the votes counted, the ANC finished on 40% - down from 58% at the previous...
June 03, 2024

South Africa president faces up to poor poll result

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