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2021-05-16 19:33:05 Kenya: Odinga Urges Calm Following BBI Invalidation, Backs Appeal
‍[Capital FM] ODM Leader Raila Odinga has urged calm and restraint amid escalating personal attacks on judges who issued a judgement on Thursday invalidating a constititional review process he co-sponsored with President Uhuru Kenyatta.
The Orange Democratic Movement Leader issued the statement after meeting Jubilee Party Vice Chairperson David Murathe and trade unionist Francis Atwoli on Saturday.
The Former Prime Minister said promoters of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) Constitution Amendment Bill will seek a s
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2021-05-16 19:24:05 Nigeria: How Lebanese Sexually Molested Girls, Minors in Jos for Years
‍[Daily Trust] Giring community in the Abattoir area of Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State, on Friday became volatile as youths wanted to burn down the police station over what they termed injustice meted on them.
This incident is, however, different from the various ongoing attacks on police formations in the country, especially in the South-East and South-South. It is also different from the #EndSars protest across the country last year.
The incident in Jos had to do with a Lebanese living at Bala Angbazo
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2021-05-16 06:39:17 East Africa: Uganda, Kenya Team Up On Old Metre Gauge Rail Project
‍[East African] With an eye on the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan markets, there is renewed vibrancy on the Northern Corridor, as Uganda and Kenya join forces to push the rehabilitation and seamless connection of the old metre gauge railway line, over which the two countries' officials met this week to thrash out operational details.
It is understood that Kenya, which is revamping its metre gauge railway line from Naivasha to Malaba, wants a reliable mode of transport for onward transit of cargo into the hin
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2021-05-16 05:12:09 Mauritius: A Picture Perfect Democracy's Fall From Grace
‍[African Arguments] Mauritius has been listed as one of the world's top ten autocratising nations. Can the people save it?
Over the past few decades, Mauritius has built a glowing international reputation. It is regarded as one of the best managed democracies in Africa, as a place to do business, and as a country where the rule of law is upheld. However, recent reports have begun to challenge this "picture perfect" image.
Most notably, Mauritius was put on the European Union's blacklist for money laundering and terrorist fina
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2021-05-16 05:12:05 South Africa: Zondo's Nuclear Deal Revelations
‍[New Frame] In the first of this two-part series, evidence before the state capture inquiry shows how the multibillion-rand deal went ahead despite warnings about the exorbitant cost and danger to health. [Part 2]
It is common knowledge that former president Jacob Zuma fired then minister of finance Nhlanhla Nene in December 2015 because he would not support Zuma's 9.6GW nuclear deal. But what is less well known are the falsehoods told by the deal's supporters to coerce reluctant Cabinet ministers - and the country at
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2021-05-16 05:03:05 South Africa: Hope Faces Off Against Power in Marikana Trial
‍[New Frame] The family members of mineworkers killed during the Marikana massacre in 2012 have yet to see a police officer held to account, and police testimony thus far appears unclear.
The public area in the Mahikeng high court was populated with history's ghosts at the resumption of the murder trial of the police officers implicated in the strike at Marikana in 2012 that left 44 people dead.
There were close to 20 of the widows and other family members of the 37 mine workers the police killed during the 10-day wild
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2021-05-16 03:15:06 Nigeria: INEC to Hold Emergency Meeting Over Attacks On Offices
‍[Leadership] The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is to hold an emergency meeting with all Resident Electoral Commissioners across the states over attacks on its offices in some parts of the country.
INEC chairman, information and voter education committee, Festus Okoye, disclosed this in a statement issued Friday in Abuja, adding that all RECs would be summoned in Abuja on May 19.
INEC said Friday that fire gutted its Udenu local government area office in Obollo Afor, Enugu State on Thursday, describin
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2021-05-16 02:03:05 Ethiopia Proposes Second Delay of National Election
‍[Nation] Ethiopian authorities have proposed delaying a previously postponed national poll over low voter registration and logistical issues.
At a consultation forum with political parties on Saturday, the Ethiopian Electoral Board announced that the 6th General Election will not be conducted on the scheduled date.
The reason, it said, was that voter registration and other "activities" had not been completed per schedule.
The board asked the dozens of political parties to delay the election by at least three weeks.
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2021-05-16 01:57:05 Zimbabwe: Elizabeth Gwaunza Announced As Acting Chief Justice
‍[New Zimbabwe] The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has announced Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza as Acting Chief Justice of Zimbabwe after the High Court Saturday ruled that Luke Malaba's term as the country top judge ended this Saturday morning.
Her appointment is with immediate effect.
The High Court on Saturday nullified the extension of Malaba's term by President Emmerson Mnangagwa who was using the leeway afforded to him by Constitutional Amendment No.2 to extend the top jurist's term of office by another five years..
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2021-05-16 00:12:09 Egypt, Netherlands Discuss Cooperation in Immigration Field
‍[Egypt Online] Egypt's Ambassador in The Hague Hatem Abdel Kader discussed with Ankei Broekers-knol, the Netherlands State Secretary for Justice and Security, prospects of cooperation in the field of immigration and means of boosting ties between the two countries.
The ambassador reviewed during the meeting Egypt's efforts at the social, economic and security levels in combating the illegal immigration over the past years, as well as measures of hosting refugees, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday 15/05
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