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S.Africa’s Zuma faces impeachment in parliament

Cape Town, South Africa | AFP South African President Jacob Zuma faces an impeachment attempt in parliament Tuesday after the country’s top court ruled that he had violated the constitution over spending on his private residence. Zuma will almost certainly survive the impeachment vote, which requires a two-thirds majority, as his …

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Nigeria captures jihadist group leader

Kano, Nigeria | AFP |  The leader of Nigeria’s Ansaru jihadist group, Khalid al-Barnawi, one of three Nigerians listed by Washington in 2012 as “specially designated global terrorists”, has been arrested, an army spokesman told AFP on Sunday. “Security agents made a breakthrough on Friday in the fight against terrorism …

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Burundi warns against execution investigations at ICC

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Burundi’s Attorney General has called on families of victims of alleged extrajudicial executions to provide evidence for investigations, warning them not to submit it to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Top government lawyer Valentin Bagorikunda claimed that evidence submitted to the ICC or the United …

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New water plant to boost Kigali water need by 82%

Kigali, Rwanda | President Kagame today inaugurated the Nzove water treatment plant located in Nzove sector, Kigali city, which will significantly increase water quantity and quality in the country, at a lower cost compared to other projects of its kind. In his inauguration speech, President Kagame called on leaders to …

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Itorero: Kagame urges leaders to take training seriously

Kigali, Rwanda | “Trainings like this one are aimed at discouraging the culture of routine. People should not consider these trainings as routine events,” said President Kagame as he presided over the closing of a two -week induction training (Itorero) for newly elected District Councillors and District Executive Secretaries. “The …

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Ivory Coast resort was ‘symbolic’ jihadist target: analysts

Paris, France | AFP | When gunmen from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb killed 18 people at a beach resort frequented by foreigners in Ivory Coast, the jihadist group was targeting its sworn enemy France, analysts said Monday. Grand-Bassam, the palm tree-fringed beach town where the gunmen wrought carnage Sunday, …

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Elephant returns to Somalia for first time in 20 years

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | An elephant marched hundreds of kilometres and briefly crossed into Somalia this month marking the first time the animal has been seen in the country in 20 years, conservationists said Wednesday. Morgan, a male bull in his 30s, was fitted with a tracking collar in …

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